Word: miguel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Communist artists who have become the leaders in the Mexican renaissance: Jose Clemente Orozco, Jean Chariot. Carlos Merida, Pachecho. They worked for a flat rate of $4 (eight pesos) a day and hired a plump little boy to bring them water and wash their brushes. The water boy was Miguel Covarrubias. now famed smartchart caricaturist...
...saloon fight, began setting his country to rights. Like an experienced barman, however, President Machado kept an alert eye cocked for a renewal of hostilities, which hotheads had continued to predict during the past fortnight. In Havana, where an expected uprising never materialized, police sat ready in armored cars. Miguel Marano Gomez, onetime Mayor of Havana, who spent the revolutionary period hiding in Havana, waiting for the insurrecto campaign on the eastern end of the island to become a success, escaped from the country, turned up in Manhattan. Peace reigned on the Prado...
...Cortes at Madrid, Minister of the Interior Miguel Maura laid Seville's troubles directly to fat-faced Major Ramon Franco, politico-aviator, now a Deputy...
...attempted to march to Chile's White House, the Casa Moneda. Kept away by a formidable cordon of police, the crowd retreated, relieved its feelings by tossing bricks through the windows of the Casa del Pueblo (founded by Ibanez). Then it gathered in front of the home of Miguel Letelier who had been suggested in the evening papers as Minister of the Interior, and set up a sing-song chant, "Don't join the Cabinet! Don't join the Cabinet...
...Miguel Letelier did join the Cabinet, but it did not do him much good. Premier Gana resigned 24 hours later. Dictator Ibanez immediately scraped up another cabinet under the leadership of Carlos Froedden, one of his oldest friends...