Word: carranza
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Morelia, capital of the State of Michoacan in 1877 of a rich, aristocratic family who trace their descent back to 1545. He graduated with an engineer's degree from the University of Mexico, entered the Army, was gazetted Captain in 1911, Brigadier General in 1920. "The late President Carranza," writes one Mexican historian, "frequently employed him [Ortiz Rubio] on engineering work of a confidential nature and also for strategic enterprises...
...beamed on his grandstand in Valbuena Field. Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow, at his left, smiled gravely. The populace screamed: "Viva . . . viva Sidar . . . viva Sidar el loco" [The crazy, reckless]. All this last week as Col. Pablo Sidar, 30, Mexico's "first" flyer since the death of Capt. Emilio Carranza (TIME, July 23, 1928), returned to Mexico City from a flight around South and Central America and Cuba. President Portes Gil pinned Mexico's first medal "For Aeronautic Merit, ist Class" on him. El Loco picked up his President and bussed him on both cheeks. Ambassador Morrow he saluted snappily...
...reputation for diabolical satire and was called the 'Mexican Goya. In the Mexican National Academy he studied painting and drew rude portraits of his masters. They told him he could not draw and sent him away. After this he worked as a newspaper artist, followed a regiment in the Carranza-Villa revolution. As a syndicate worker, he covered patio walls, stairways and crypts with enormous frescoes of a beardless Christ bearing a great cross, Saint Francis of Assisi bowing to kiss a leper, caricatures of bourgeoise ladies and their bloated escorts trampling up to Heaven on the bodies of peons...
David Alfaro Siqueiros was a drummer boy in the Villa Revolution. Afterward the Carranza Government sent him to Europe to study. As inspirations he brought back photos of Italian primitives and U. S. oil derricks. When the Syndicate was formed Painter Siqueiros became its mouthpiece. Versatile, he edited the painters' newspaper, El Machete, made speeches at mass meetings, painted the Burial of a Workman which was stoned. For distraction he lay on his bed with a revolver and shot dotted-line pictures into the ceiling. At art school he ate the fruit and vegetable still-life models, saying "a real...
Mexico City to Washington. Vainly again did a Mexican try to fly nonstop from Mexico City to Washington. 2,300 miles. Last year it was the late Emilio Carranza. Last week it was Joaquin Gonzalez Pacheco, with Clifford E. McMillin of Syracuse, N.Y., in a plane named for Carranza. Like Carranza, Pacheco reached Washington, but not until after forced landings...