Word: ens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Accused of sympathizing with Leon Trotsky, now en route to Mexico in exile, Muralist Diego Rivera, a Trotskyite-Communist leader, was beaten up in a Mexico City restaurant, his wife punched in the stomach when she attempted to intervene...
...Hilariously celebrating in the ship's bar of the Normandie with their first advance pay checks from Spain's Radical Government, six able U. S. aviators were en route last week for Madrid to join Bert Acosta, pilot of Admiral Byrd's transatlantic flight, in doing battle against Generalissimo Francisco Franco's White planes. Payment for their services: $1,500 a month plus $1,000 for each White plane brought down...
Monkeys who catch pigeons n midair en route from one tree to the next, monkeys who juggle china cups without breaking them, monkeys who walk and almost even talk are to be the goal of the expedition, the first half of which will leave New York for Singapore on the S.S "Kota Tjandi" on December...
Under a bright Hawaiian moon, dainty Anna May Wong put out to sea one night last week in a pineapple barge. Embarked on neither a pleasure jaunt nor a cinema stunt, Actress Wong and 446 fellow passengers were en route to the U. S. For three weeks, they had been stranded in Honolulu by the shipping strike (TIME, Nov. 23). A few tourists, including a California man and an Australian woman who met and married in the interim, had enjoyed their isolation. But most were glad to be towed in the pineapple barge last week, two miles...
...third time they had ever heard it. Faces fell when the directors announced that Bodanzky would not return this season, that plump, pleasant Fritz Reiner would succeed him. Know-it-alls began to gossip that Reiner planned to pare down expenses and substitute cheaper instruments for the prescribed tub en quartet, the indispensable bass trumpet. In London last summer Reiner quietly persuaded Philadelphia's Mrs. Curtis Bok to lend him four tuben and a bass trumpet, had them shipped to San Francisco, hired four members of the Oakland Symphony to practice up on them. This week when he hopped...