Word: mariners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...idea was first put forward by mustachioed Pascual Marin, fanatical young (35) Falange boss of Segovia: take the blue shirts out of mothballs and stage a rally of the old guard. Labor Minister Jose Antonio Giron, leader of the Falange extremists, was all for it, but there was opposition from 1) Falange moderates, happy in their cushy government jobs; 2) the monarchists, who fear that a reawakening of Falangist activity may mean the end of Pretender Don Juan's chances of getting the throne; 3) the army, one of whose spokesmen said: "We prefer commemorating wars in which...
...Morris F. Richardson, former Republican mayor of Whittier, Calif. (Senator Nixon's home town) enlisted with Stevenson because, he said, "I am convinced it is time for a change." So did John J. Wiley, who directed Nixon's successful senatorial campaign two years ago in Marin County (Calif...
...Salvador flowed petitions and resolutions. Puerto Ricans in New York City formed a Save Collazo Committee, got 30,000 signatures on a clemency petition. From Puerto Rico came messages pointing out that the island has no death penalty. Last week Puerto Rico's Governor Luis Mufioz Marin sent an urgent telegram to the White House. The U.S. State Department advised the President that the execution of Collazo would damage U.S.. relations with all Latin America. Eight days before Collazo's anticipated martyrdom, and one day before Puerto Rico became a "free commonwealth" (see above), President Truman commuted...
...every city and hamlet the people celebrated the new day of independence* with music, oratory, parades. In front of the Capitol in San Juan, oratory-loving Governor Luis Mufios Marin, the driving force in the making of the new constitution, looked up at the two banners flying together. "This emblem of the smallest country in the hemisphere alongside that of the U.S.," he said, "means that the two nations, as well as the two peoples, are of equal dignity...
...work of contemporary painters, conservative as well as the most radical experimenters. Those of you who have been collecting TIME'S Art color pages now have a gallery of reproductions that includes the work of Toulouse-Lautrec, John Sloan, Andrew Wyeth, El Greco, Vincent Van Gogh, John Marin, Wassily Kandinsky, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Paul Cezanne, Paolo Veronese and Leonardo da Vinci. In addition, the color pages have provided the opportunity to show a wide range of other art forms: from modern church architecture to flower arrangements, from Indian sand painting to luminous sculpture, from 20th century fireworks...