Word: leon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...city; in its 76 years as the capital it had flourished. Among the adobe shacks were handsome villas, gardened palaces, pretentious public buildings. Managua was chosen as the capital in 1855 to end the interminable bloody rivalry of Nicaragua's chief cities: Granada, stronghold of the Conservatives, and Leon of the Liberals. For years these two, like Florence and Siena, battled bloodily to be the capital. Last week Granada and Leon were ready to resume this fight...
Small comfort came from Soviet Delegate Leon Natanovitch Kritzman. Russia, said he, would under no circumstances cut down her wheat acreage, hoped to increase it. But she would probably not increase wheat exports. Russia had had to export most of her wheat to obtain credit to buy machinery. The time is approaching when Russians can afford to eat more...
...Radcliffe has just been announced, and will be presented on Thursday and Saturday evenings, April 9 and 11 in the Agassiz theatre at Radcliffe. The play this year will be "Jud Suss," a drama in three acts by Ashley Dukes, which is based on "Power," the historical romance of Leon Feuchtwanger...
...Juan, President Hoover was a guest at La Fortaleza, the 499-year-old Governor's Palace overlooking the harbor which Ponce de Leon called "Rich Port" when he established the first colony for Spain in 1508. Native politicians crowded about for conferences with El Presidente...
Praiseworthy were Gifford Beal's Men with Lobster Pots; Leon Krolls portrait of a baby; Lizabeth Paxton's Deshabille; Ernest Lawson's Colorado Ranch. Of the show as a whole, New York Times Critic Edward Alden Jewell commented: "It often seems as if these artists had been snowed under in the blizzard of 1888-whose 43rd anniversary has just been marked-and emerging at last from the drifts were to be seen taking up life again just where they left it. Most of the sculpture is too discouraging for words...