Word: diego
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many things" which the President began to tackle next morning at his White House desk, the first was a detailed report on European affairs from Secretary Hull. Last thing Franklin Roosevelt said before sailing away from San Diego last month was that he was going to avoid foreign entanglements. One of the first things he said upon landing at Charleston was that his "great and earnest effort" would be to "keep this country free and unentangled from any great war that may occur in the countries across the sea." The President ran over this melody again, while Secretary Hull played...
That done, the President steamed away on the cruiser Houston for the mainland at Bahia Honda, Panama. There he got the first mail he had seen since leaving San Diego, Calif, ten days before, stopped for more fishing in the Gulf of Panama...
Back in the U. S. she met paunchy Diego Rivera, begged his permission to grind colors, become his assistant. She worked with the Mexican muralist on his Detroit Art Institute fresco before helping him with the fresco fiasco of Rockefeller Center (TIME, May 22, 1933 et ante). It was Lucienne Bloch, as Rivera's official photographer, who took the only pictures of the completed mural before it was ordered destroyed. A few friends call her Lucienne; a few call her Luce. She hates Lucy, prefers the simple, abrupt "Bloch...
...took three of the train's ten cars to hold all the photographers, radiomen, reporters and Secret Service men. Together with Mrs. Roosevelt, a White House staff detachment twelve strong and an unusually heavy Secret Service detail, the Press was to accompany the President as far as San Diego. To take with him aboard the Houston on his cruise back East by way of the Panama Canal, the President had selected a pair of ill-assorted guests: PW Administrator Harold Le Clair Ickes and WP Administrator Harry Hopkins. Messrs. Ickes & Hopkins have for months been scrapping like a pair...
Primitives of the Catalonian and Aragonese Schools were there, along with excellent examples of 15th and 16th Century anonymous religious paintings. But the reputation of Spain as an art centre rests entirely on the work of three great painters: Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez, Domenico Theotocopuli (El Greco), Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes. Of the three, Velazquez was of Portuguese descent and Theotocopuli a Greek, which leaves the glory of Spanish art to just one thoroughgoing Spaniard, Goya...