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...then Socialist Government of Madrid that Edward Bruce of PWA fame does now to the New Deal in the U. S. He was a great friend of Madrid's Socialist Boss Indalecio Prieto, had just been commissioned to do a series of enormous murals in the Casa del Pueblo and the University. Knowing nothing about Mary Hoover except that she ate well and drank well, Artist Quintanilla took her on as his assistant, taught her to paint in fresco, kept her slaving on a scaffold all summer long...
...declares that the Italian professor is the representative of a kettle "which has crushed the rights of labor and debased culture." Then to prove that the kettle is really much sootier than the pot, the Executive Committee of the League charges that, at Columbia, the Casa Italiana has disseminated propaganda to the detriment of the university. The mildewed, but still applicable warning to those who live in glass houses rears its ugly head...
...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...