Word: diego
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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California's Democratic Candidate Ross Mclntire is given an outside chance to win only because San Diego is a Navy town and he is a retired admiral (he was President Roosevelt's doctor). Connecticut's Republican Representative Antoni Sadlak, running at large, has been helped by Polish defections from the opposition. Reason: the Democrats failed to nominate a Pole for the race. Colorado's Republican Representative J. Edgar Chenoweth is having trouble because he is blamed for the failure of the G.O.P. Congress to approve an Arkansas River reclamation bill that he himself introduced. Idaho...
...need of names to brighten its roster, Mexico's short-handed (membership: barely 5,000) Communist Party offered a bittersweet welcome to a long-lost comrade, Painter Diego Rivera, 67. In 1929, Comrade Rivera was excommunicated because of his growing list of deviations. He had fallen into the habit of firing off peppery pronunciamentos without first clearing them with the proper Red monitors. Confessed loose-lipped Rivera: "I got kicked out for shooting off my mouth." He later even gave haven in his home for two years to Leon Trotsky. Back in the fold again last week, Rivera...
...Diego's Hotel del Coronado last week, some 300 admen at an American Association of Advertising Agencies convention heard a talk that did their ulcers no good. Declared Ad Expert Horace Seymour Schwerin: "Of over $400 million which will be spent on TV advertising this year, well over $100 million is going down the drain. This is expensive garbage...
...January 28, the Board of Education by a 6-0 vote decided to recommend Steinmetz' dismissal from San Diego State College...
Harry C. Steinmetz, fired from San Diego State College on Feb. 5 for refusing to say whether or not he was a Communist, thought his troubles were over when immediately after his dismissal, Cornell offered him a summer teaching...