Word: diaz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coffee is down. So are Nicaraguan bananas, hardwoods, sugar cane. The result was a near-record registration and a landslide victory over Conservative former President Adolfo Diaz by the Liberal candidate. Dr. Juan Bautista Sacasa. Along toward 3 a. m., when his triumph was conceded. President-elect Sacasa modestly declared. "This is a victory for Liberalism...
...Spain's favorite national hero whose legendary exploits are celebrated in the Poem a del Cid, oldest Spanish epic (12th Century). Named Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar, he was called El Cid ("the lord...
...rushes" he used an immense amount of film-160.000 ft. The picture, not yet publicly released, is called Viva Mexico. It relates three incidents, each with different characters. Wrote Critic Edmund Wilson, after seeing parts of Viva Mexico: "The first is a tragedy of the Mexican peons under the Diaz regime; the second a romance of the master class during the same period and the third a story of one of the camp followers in the army of the revolution. ... As you watch . . . you are ready to believe that Eisenstein has indeed created the supreme masterpiece up-to-date...
...arena on a cayuse, Picket jumped on the back of the charging bull, sank his teeth in the bull's nose,, within seven minutes was sitting on its head. To avert a brawl between side-betting Mexican sports and Col. Miller's show hands, President Porfirio Diaz gave Picket a military escort, guaranteed the prize money...
CONQUISTADOR-Archibald MacLeish- Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). To Octogenarian Bernal Diaz del Castillo, a conquistador retired to his estate in Guatemala, there came from Spain Francisco Lopez de Gomara's account of Cortes' Mexican expedition of 1519. The old lion Bernal was aroused. Who was this fine young Professor de Gomara, to be making charts out of battles and histories out of men? Old Bernal fought those battles, knew those men. He could make them live again-blood, bones, the light in their eyes, the sand in their boots. To prove it, he wrote his True History...