Word: casa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...revolutionist all his life, he plotted ardently for the overthrow of Alfonso XIII and with his own hands ran up the first Republican flag over the Royal Palace. Socialist Indalecio Prieto was Minister of Finance then and commissioned Luis Quintanilla to paint huge frescoes on the walls of the Casa del Pueblo and the great new University City out at Moncloa Park. Free-spending Prieto lost his job and Spain swung farther to the Right. Fearing a Fascist dictatorship, perhaps even a restoration of the Bourbon Monarchy, Luis Quintanilla became a conspirator again...
Smart Jack Kapp left Brunswick lately, decided that popular records would have to be cheaper. He founded his own company, Decca Records, Inc., which for 35¢ apiece will have discs on the market this week made by Bing Crosby, Guy Lombardo, the Mills Brothers, the Casa Loma Band, Frank Crumit, Victor Young, Isham Jones. Jack Kapp's claim: All other cheap records have been made by obscure or mediocre performers. His white hope: Bob Crosby, young brother of Bing...
...West's handsome Casa Marina Hotel has not been open for two seasons. Hundreds of homes have been abandoned. A city which once had had 83 thriving business establishments was reduced to less than 25. Only one cigar factory was left from an industry which once employed 10,000 workers. A population of 18,000 has suffered a 33% reduction in ten years. Last week half the citizens of Key West were on Federal relief rolls when the City Council and officers of Monroe County petitioned Governor Sholtz to take over the local government. Poverty had whipped Key West...
...bands, including 32 pieces, will stage a "Battle of Music" playing from alternate ends of the hall. Pete Herman, the famous "Dog House Slapper," who has played with Mal Hallett and Casa Loma, will be on hand to carry on with his baby bass-viol; Lew Conrad will be crooning the latest hits from the Scandals, the Follies, and all the bigtown shows; Marshard's great aerialminded planist will be doing tailspins all over the key boards...
...jazz, Harvardians like Eddie Duchin, the Casa Loma orchestra, and Cab Calloway. Ellington is a classic here: people come in and buy his records of two years ago. Such men as Reisman and Lombardo no longer sell as they used...