Word: diego
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years. Never famed, he received public attention for: 1) His notorious defeat when a candidate for the U. S. Senate from California (1898) after which he was charged with election corruption, was later exonerated; 2) His erection, as a realtor, of the U. S. Grant Hotel in San Diego at a cost of $1,500,000; 3) His second marriage, to a Mrs. America Workman Will, which was disapproved by Grant friends...
Dissatisfied, the returning painters formed a guild called the "Revolutionary Syndicate of Technical Workers, Painters and Sculptors" and offered to decorate buildings in a true Mexican style. With Diego Rivera (TIME, May 6) as mas ter they received a contract to paint murals for the National Preparatory School in Mexico City. For their motive they chose the Creation of the World, which was executed in monumental scale with figures twice lifesize. Unlike polite muralists of other countries their colors were not pastel tints but sombre browns, flashing reds and greens...
...Diego Rivera was the most journalisti cally picturesque of the syndicate. He was assailed by the press, lampooned on the stage. Souvenir hunters put snapshots of him in their kodak albums with street beggars. Indians and other scenic curiosities. Undaunted, he works on. Today he is painting what will be the world's largest mural, in the Government Palace in Mex ico City, which will picture the history of Mexico from the Spanish conquest. Painter Rivera is often visited by English speaking tourists and keeps a U. S. assistant to interpret...
...Hugo Eckener, the Graf Zeppelin's designer, commander and world navigator, was twice a godfather. A pass in the Coast Range of mountains east of San Diego, over which he sailed three weeks ago, was named Eckener Pass by Major Carl Spats, Army flyer, and Commander Van Arnauld de la Perier of the German cruiser Emden. In dedication they flew over the pass, dropped a parachute with a, German and a U. S. flag attached. The 'other christening was by Luft Hansa, German air transport company, who named one of its huge new trimotored Rohrback-Romar transoceanic planes...
...suspended service to send every plane on the search. Col. Lind- bergh, the line's technical advisor, and his wife flew from Long Island to hunt. The aircraft carriers Lexington and Saratoga sent ten planes from San Diego harbor; the Army sent squadrons from Texas, California, Nebraska. Western Air Express pilots, keeping up their service, had orders to deviate from their fixed routes to scan remote terrain...