Word: jose
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into Yucatan between 530 and 629 A.D., archeologists have long held that the Mayas, driven out by famine, pestilence, war, or decadence, left the Old Empire cities wholly deserted. Last spring J. Eric Thompson of Chicago's Field Museum made excavations in the Old Empire site around San Jose, reported evidence of continuous occupation down to the 15th Century, just before the Spanish invasions. He dug up copper vessels, a shred of cloth smaller than a dime, neither of which had been found in this region before ; an axe carved from a single block of obsidian; a mirror wrought...
Campaign Problems. The days that James Aloysius Farley spent breakfasting, conferring, speaking, shaking hands in Indianapolis, Springfield, Kansas City, Santa Fe and Albuquerque, were repeated with only minor variations at Williams, Ariz., at Los Angeles, San Jose, San Francisco, Sacramento. Reno. At the last place he thumped for the Federal deposit guaranty law, declared: "I have heard this and that Senator given the credit for this legislation, but I want to claim it here and now for the Democratic Party, lock, steel and barrel. The guaranty of bank deposits was a very plain and very definite pledge of the Democratic...
Patronage. Resting in bed at San Jose, Jim Farley had to give audience to a number of politicians who could not be kept out. He did not seriously mind. In Washington he seldom walks into the lobby of the Mayflower Hotel, where he lives, without half a dozen men jumping up to wring his hand and say: "Oh, Jim. I want to speak to you a minute about...
...Manhattan, Pianist-Conductor Jose Iturbi opened the Lewisohn Stadium season with a meticulous rendering of Beethoven's Egmont overture. As usual, old Adolph Lewisohn, who built the Stadium, made a sweet, fumbling speech in which he announced that, besides Iturbi, Willem van Hoogstraten and Eugene Ormandy would lead the New York Philharmonic-Symphony. When Mayor LaGuardia made a speech Communist hecklers who had been waiting since late afternoon in the 25? seats chorused: "Yellow dog La-Guardia! Yellow dog LaGuardia!" Three nights later the Stadium offered a novelty -the first of eight pairs of operas, with scenery and Metropolitan...
...father arranged a marriage between him and Pilár, known to be a beauty, thought to be an heiress, Pepe quickly found she was too saintly for his taste. Left a penniless orphan by the death of her scheming grandmother, Pilár was jilted by Pepe. Don Jose took her into his household where both he and Juan fell in love with her. But Pilar's saintliness was too much for them: when Juan realized that she was as impregnable as his father's purpose he ran off with renegade Miguel to be a Communist. Pepe...