Word: mexico
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Abelardo Rodriguez Market, covering four blocks of Mexico City's slum section, was finished last year and named for Mexico's immensely wealthy President Rodriguez. Besides being one of the world's largest markets, it is a community recreation centre for the city's poor. The area assigned to the nine muralists was 16,000 sq. ft., about 1,800 sq. ft. apiece, to be covered by the end of 1935. Each was permitted to pick his own theme, subject to esthetic supervision by Diego Rivera, topical supervision by the Federal Government's Civic Action...
...same lobby Grace's sister Marion, 25, is working on Fruits & Vegetables. Both sisters went to Manhattan's Art Students' League but while Grace finished her studies in Paris and Italy, Marion wandered to Mexico. Last year both did frescoes for the Michoacan State capital in Morelia. A faster worker than her sister, Marion last week started on her third wall. Her peasants, a little looser in the joints than Grace's, bring to market bags of papaya, cashew fruit, guava, yams, cabbages, carrots and bananas. Among Fruits & Vegetables Marion includes a few fish...
Most prolific State: New Mexico with a birth rate of 27.9. Least prolific State: California with a rate of 12.7. Most prolific city: Iowa City, Iowa with a rate...
...Lake City after a second visit to Hawaii, during which he organized a new Mormon "stake" (ecclesiastical unit)- the Church's 114th and its first outside North America. When Heber J. Grant arrived in Honolulu with his trusty First Counselor, heavy-jowled Joshua Reuben Clark, onetime Ambassador to Mexico, the two potent churchmen were given a rousing native welcome, garlanded with lets (see cut). They toured the islands with a party including President Castle H. Murphy of the Hawaii L. D. S. Mission. At Laie they attended a luan, at which President Grant alone used a fork, the others...
...truth." One of his most trusted advisers was Vandervelde, onetime president of the Second International, and of him the king remarked, "He is more than an adversary, he is a rival." He brooded over the casual criticism of journalists. He saw hidden reflections in an article on Maximilian of Mexico, had the author censured. He violently defended the reign of Leopold II even when no one was attacking it. His moods changed with Hamlet-like rapidity, and politicians said he always agreed with the last speaker. The assassination of Tsar Nicholas was a terrible shock to him, and he felt...