Word: davids
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Busch, who became Provisional President in July 1937 after the overthrow of Col. David Toro and was elected constitutional head of the country last May, said his dictatorship was neither extreme leftist nor rightist, but "entirely Bolivian" in character...
Another Barnaby-coached racquet man, and incidentally one of the six Committeemen who has been working since last fall on the report, is David S. Burt, '40 and he presents the majority view of the Council...
Free on bail in Mexico City last week was the fieriest Mexican muralist of them all, David Alfaro Siqueiros. In 1922, when he was a baby-faced revolutionist, Siqueiros organized and ran the famed Syndicate of masons and painters (Charlot, Orozco, Merida, Montenegro, de la Cueva, Rivera) who revived true fresco in America. Since the dispersal of that illustrious company, Sparkplug Siqueiros has led strikes in Mexico, preached socialist esthetics in Manhattan, fought in Spain as a colonel in the Loyalist Army. When he returned from the war last month he vowed to settle down and paint. Fortnight ago President...
...Automotive Maintenance Show in the New York Port Authority Building, an oldtime garage man from Chicago, Ralph L. de Gayner, astonished dealers and jobbers by gunning out clean little landscapes in five minutes each. Gunner de Gayner never knew David Siqueiros, but he had the same inspiration about seven years ago, has been getting so good at his specialty (pictures of clipper ships) that several have been sold. "The artists still think it's cheese," said he, "but dealers sell it and that's the big thing. I wouldn't be caught dead with a brush...
Wuthering Heights (Merle Oberon, Lawrence Olivier, David Niven; TIME, April...