Word: diego
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When he said: "I wish that there was a Magruder in every Department of the Government" (TIME, Oct. 3), Senator William Edgar Borah may have had Aladdin's lamp in his ample lap. A moon had not passed when, last week at San Diego, Calif., there rose up another "Magruder," this time in the Department...
...only the Philadelphia Navy Yard. The War Department's "Magruder" was really a "Super-Magruder" because he was Major General Charles Pelot Summerall, Chief of Staff, and topmost soldier of them all. Touring the West to inspect Army stations, General Summerall last week stood up before the San Diego (Calif.) Chamber of Commerce and said: "The housing situation of the Army is a disgrace! Men are living in quarters at Camp Hearn like workers in a logging camp. The same condition prevails at other places. They are living in tumbledown shacks on the scale of the immigrant class...
When the resolution was proposed, only three gentlemen present exhibited much surprise. The first of these was one Louis Henry Francisco. No one had invited Mr. Francisco. He had just "dropped in," he said, from San Diego, Calif. He described himself as a rancher, a rich man, an intimate of laborers, bankers, clergymen. He had, he said, solved all the country's economic and international problems. He was, he said, the originator of the so-called Dawes Reparations Plan. He, Louis Henry Francisco, was, he insisted, the man of the hour, the long-sought, the logical, the "most available" candidate...
...Diego to Los Angeles...
...having genius, the highest honor in the art world is discovering genius. Lee Simonson has some claim to the first, by virtue of his stage designs executed for the Theatre Guild (Manhattan). He may have some claim to the second as a result of his announced revelation that Diego Rivera, Mexican painter of little international repute, is the greatest artist in the world. Being a Socialist, Artist Rivera subscribes to the idea, "From those according to their ability, to those according to their need." Therefore, he painted the patio (inside court) of the Ministry of Education Building in Mexico City...