Word: del
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italians pronounce the initials of Saragat's Partito Socialista del Lavoratori Italiani (Socialist Party of Italian Workers) as piselli (peas...
Diego Rivera was in hot water again last week. His mural in Mexico City's Del Prado Hotel (TIME, Oct. 6) had suddenly become a national scandal. Someone had informed the Archbishop that the mural contained a portrait of Don Ignacio Ramirez (an anticlerical follower of Juarez) holding a placard with the words Dios no existe ("God does not exist"-see cut). Sadly, the Archbishop canceled a date to bless the just-completed hotel and went off to bless some jai alai courts instead...
That did it. Rivera was condemned by practically everyone in town-except the Communists, who prepared to forgive him his Trotskyite sins and welcome him back with open arms. Roman Catholic committees demanded that the Del Prado mural be changed, or got rid of, as Rivera's Reforma Hotel and Rockefeller Center murals had been...
...People's Will? On the night of his return, Haya stood on a platform in front of the Casa del Pueblo (House of the People), party headquarters. His left arm was outstretched in the Aprista salute, as thousands (APRA's estimate: 200,000; opposition estimate: 15,000) passed in review. While fireworks lighted the sky, the people chanted "Elections, yes! Tyranny, no!" (The day before, Bustamante had postponed congressional by-elections for a third time.) Then they jammed the Avenida Alfonso Ugarte to hear their leader...
...caravan headed west from Havana along the broad Central Highway. At town after sugar-mill town, Liberal party leaders had turned out crowds to wave at Presidential Candidate Ricardo Núñez Portuondo. By the time he made his speech of the day, at Pinar del Rio, it was 1 a.m. "People are sick and tired of four years of Grauism," he thundered. The guayabera-clothed farmers had stayed to cheer. "Fuera-out with them," they yelled...