Word: el
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...realty at El Dorado, Ark., where he is president of the Chamber of Commerce, a 39-year-old booster-bachelor. Accepting his new office, he cried: "I should hold high and keep clean the banner...
...Wailing Wall in Jerusalem last week a 90-year-old rabbi with a flowing white beard prayed for peace in a quavering voice. But this year's most notable observation of Rosh Hashanah, was in Manhattan, where the new and beautiful Temple Emanu-El, costing $8,000,000, was opened. Famed members of this synagog include, besides the late great Louis Marshall (TIME, Sept. 23), Daniel Guggenheim, Benjamin Mordecai, Adolph S. Ochs, Roger Williams Straus. Rabbi Nathan Krass told them the temple signified that "man doth not live by bread only...
...made a trip back to Texas, to marry Emma Garland Morgan. A few years later he rode in the first Mexican Central train from Mexico City to El Paso, whence he went to New Mexico...
...conspiring with Oilman Edward L. Doheny to defraud the U. S., Fall has yet to be cleared of taking a $100,000 bribe from Doheny.* With his 68th birthday only seven weeks off, with a physician beside him to watch over his infirmaries, Fall boarded a train at El Paso. Entraining at Los Angeles to testify at the trial was Alleged-Briber Doheny, himself an aging man but no longer under indictment...
...Siqueiros was a drummer boy in the Villa Revolution. Afterward the Carranza Government sent him to Europe to study. As inspirations he brought back photos of Italian primitives and U. S. oil derricks. When the Syndicate was formed Painter Siqueiros became its mouthpiece. Versatile, he edited the painters' newspaper, El Machete, made speeches at mass meetings, painted the Burial of a Workman which was stoned. For distraction he lay on his bed with a revolver and shot dotted-line pictures into the ceiling. At art school he ate the fruit and vegetable still-life models, saying "a real artist should...