Word: diego
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...perfected a system of radio control for ships, the first ever put into actual use. Directed by his devices, the battleship Iowa was used as a target during naval maneuvers off Panama in 1923. Recently the destroyer Stoddert was converted into a radio-controlled target, maneuvered off San Diego. The Navy intends similarly to equip the destroyers Kitty and Boggs...
Mexican Muralist Diego Rivera has illustrated Mexico with 15 black & white drawings, a colored frontispiece...
...Cathedral in Los Angeles (he will be installed in Reno this month), he was the first local priest to be elevated to the episcopacy. To see the ceremony came thousands; assisting in it were Archbishop Edward J. Hanna of San Francisco and the Bishops of Los Angeles and San Diego, Sacramento, Salt Lake City, Denver, Tucson and Baker City...
...Bishop Gorman the obvious question: what did he think of divorce and gambling in his see city? His sharp brown eyes gleamed, but he would make no comment. Was he a liberal? A reply came from Rev. Bernard J. Dolan, chancellor of the diocese of Los Angeles and San Diego: "If he were a liberal he would not have been consecrated Bishop! We hear voices raised all over the land in protest and horror of the licence that prevails in that State. . . . We cannot condone laxity of morals whether in the individual or the State. Laws that facilitate the evasion...
...most striking works in the exhibition are undoubtedly the portrait of Diego Martelli and the three studies for it, though a close second is the carefully planned and competently executed portrait of Jules Finot, the painter. Other paintings and pastels deserve careful attention from the point of view of design, color, and fine drawing...