Word: europeans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such funds are appropriated by most European governments, but Farouk was suspicious that the money was intended for the coffers of Premier Nahas' Wafdist & Blueshirt organizations. Again Farouk balked. Adviser Maher acted for him, accepted a compromise sum of $70,000. Then the King tried his hand with an ultimatum. Anxious to get rid of the armed Blueshirts. Farouk gave his Cabinet an overnight choice: dissolve the organization or hand in their resignations as Ministers. At the last minute, Premier Nahas came forward with a compromise...
...Painting. As aware of European styles as ever before, U. S. artists last year showed a maturing independence of them. Nineteen thirty-seven opened with the important Surrealist Exhibition at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art and closed with an exhibition of The Eternal City by Peter Blume, whose work has been called "an American form of Surrealism." But the definite character and strength of U. S. painting is nowhere clearer than in the fact that Blume's painting is actually not Surrealist but an original, explicitly symbolic picture designed to say a good deal to the waking...
...California was making 40,000,000 gallons of wine a year and California wines were being drunk in London. Wine had been made in California missions since 1769 but it began to be taken seriously only when Hungarian Count Agostin Haraszthy imported cuttings of about 500 kinds of European grapes in the 1860s...
...1920s grape-growers ripped out the first-class European vines-the Pinot and Senillon and Riesling, which bore less than two tons of grapes to an acre-and replaced them with indifferent vines which bore up to ten. Reason: Prohibition's amateur vintners bought grapes by quantity, not quality. The wine business continued turning out just about enough wine for the ecclesiastical trade, but the grape business prospered. California shipped about 16,000 carloads of grapes in 1918; by 1927 it shipped 73,000 carloads...
...weather is always equally good so the vintage years are always the same. When he is accused of plagiarizing French wine names he claims indignantly that Burgundy is as much a descriptive word as whiskey. He also enjoys pointing out that when the disease Phylloxera virtually wiped out European vineyards between 1870 and 1880, the only thing that saved them was grafting European grape vines on the root stock of the wild vine of California...