Word: diego
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...procession halted before a huge (63 ft. by 17 ft.) unfinished fresco on the wall facing the doors. Its bright colors and hard, compact figures filled the lobby like a parade. On scaffolding before it stood a big, drooping man with a gloomy face and sad Mexican eyes: Diego Rivera, the world's foremost living fresco painter. A guard called to Rivera to come down from his scaffold. He laid down his big brushes and the tin kitchen plate he uses for a palette, climbed nimbly down the ladder. Mr. Robertson handed him an envelop. It held a check...
...around. A mobile telescopic mooring mast, which can extend from a height of 77 ft. to 160 ft. will haul the airship along the tracks. A null "stern beam." built something like a flat car, anchors the ship's stern. Sunnyvale is a San Franciscan triumph over San Diego which fought bitterly for the air base. Businessmen of San Francisco and neighboring towns raised $470,000 to buy the 1,000-acre Sunnyvale tract, gave the land to the Government. Total Government investment in the station will be about...
...instruments, its Treaty Cruisers. He is also a gunnery expert. Of medium height, grey-haired Admiral Standley is regarded as "swell" by the elevator boy and telephone operator of his Long Beach, Calif, apartment house. His son & namesake is in charge of the torpedo school at the San Diego naval air station. One of his four daughters married a naval man. New commander of the U. S. Fleet will be Vice Admiral David Foote Sellers of Texas, who was President Theodore Roosevelt's naval aide, has fought and won medals all over the map. He will succeed Admiral Richard...
...about art. Last year Edsel Ford gave the money for a set of frescoes on Detroit industries, to adorn the walls of an Italianate garden court in Detroit's Institute of Arts. Director Wilhelm R. Valentiner gave the job to the new world's foremost muralist, robustious Diego Rivera, who came and swabbed for eight months, losing 125 Ib. (from 310) the while.* Last month for the first time Detroiters were let into the court whose plain white panels had been covered with Rivera's brilliant pigments...
...Manhattan, Citizen Herbert Hoover made a hurried call to Pasadena, learned that his wife and Herbert Jr. were uninjured. From Washington President Roosevelt wired Governor Rolph: "If anything is needed wire me at once. Trust preliminary reports are exaggerated." The President ordered the fleet off San Pedro and San Diego to give...