Word: jose
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prune-proud San Jose, Calif., at a breakfast that was prunes from end to end, the California Chiropractors' Association suggested in a friendly way that the prune be renamed "Petite Pomme Noire d'Amour" (Little Black Apple of Love). Prune-growers favored simply...
John Dimeff, San Jose, California--Los Gatos Union High School, Los Gatos, California...
Distinguished by an almost total absence of Dada clutter and by a powerful employment of Surrealist scale, lighting and perspective, the montages were the work of 40-year-old Jose Renau of Barcelona. For two years Leftist Director General of Fine Arts, charged with guarding Spanish art treasures and with planning the Spanish Pavilion at last year...
...months, the balloon, billowing up in the Teruel-to-the-Mediterranean front, has been in Leftist hands. Last week, unable to stand up under the downpour of shells, bald-domed General Jose Miaja, commander-in-chief on the Leftists' southern front, inched his troops backward, holed up in new trenches dug across the neck of the balloon in the rugged Sierra Espadan Mountains. Against this straightened, bristling front line of barbed wire, concrete machine-gun emplacements running from just northwest of Viver, 34 miles from Valencia on the Teruel-Sagunto road, to the seacoast 30 miles away, the Rightists...
Defending Leftist militiamen under General Jose Miaja retreated steadily but in good order, inflicting severe losses on the attackers. The Rightists, attacking in mass infantry assaults, were estimated by the Associated Press to have lost 10,000 men. The Leftists, following strictly defensive tactics, lost...