Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...History repeats-I am becoming dimly conscious of the fact that this year we are to have a national election. Sometimes at the close of a day I say to myself that the last national election must have been held a dozen years ago-so much water has run under the bridge, so many great events in our history have occurred since then. And yet 34 months, less than three years, have gone by since March...
...uniform circulated through the moving throng, trying to maintain order. A little knot of elderly financiers from Manhattan stood by themselves like new arrivals to be introduced at a large reception. And everywhere cameramen swarmed, climbed over one another, mounted chairs & tables, formed a living pyramid above half a dozen Senators who sat, all but lost from sight, at a long table at the end of the room...
...election had been postponed half a dozen times. The Negro Communist Left and the semi-Fascist ABC had refused to put up candidates, their leaders being either in exile or in mortal fear of Army Chief of Staff Colonel Fulgencio Batista. Meanwhile, over a year ago, a black-browed, cigar-sucking little man named Miguel Mariano Gomez began plugging steadily at building himself into Cuba's dark horse. He was the son of Cuba's second President, Jose Miguel Gomez. He had been an insurgent "Liberal" Mayor of Havana opposed to tyrannical "Liberal" Machado. He had a plump...
...pious, conservative women had the vote for the first time. Meanwhile, unwilling to accept the responsibility of either holding or postponing the election, provisional President Carlos Mendieta resigned his job to his meek Secretary of State Jose A. Barnet y Vina-gres (TIME, Dec. 23). Of all the dozen "sectors" and their might-have-been candidates who once shrilled for Cuba's attention, only Gomez and Menocal last week actually ran for President. As the ballots were counted by the lazy and inefficient clerks, it appeared more & more certain that Gomez had won. This week, four days & nights after...
From Boston and Brooklyn, from Chicago and Worcester, from a dozen private collectors, sheaves of water colors arrived at Manhattan's Knoedler Galleries last week for an exhibition to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the most distinguished U. S. artist the gallery ever sponsored: Winslow Homer. It was a shrewd choice as a memorial exhibition. Greatly honored in his own lifetime, Winslow Homer certainly never thought of himself primarily as a watercolorist. Yet modern critics are generally agreed that the U. S. has produced only three men who could create virile, important work in what...