Word: modesto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wrote Don Modesto of Madrid, most feared of bullfight critics, after seeing Juan Belmonte for the first time. For the 15 years (1912-27) of Belmonte's ring career all Spain proudly echoed Don Modesto's opinion. Biographer Baerlein goes even further, puts Belmonte on a level with Cervantes and Goya. Readers who liked Ernest Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon will want to read this rambling Hispanophile book about Spain's No. 1 modern matador...
With a bang that reverberated throughout California, the cannery of Calistan Packers, Inc. near Modesto was closed temporarily last week by a Federal court order under the Agricultural Adjustment Act. Clingstone peaches caused the trouble. In August, A.A.A. put through an agreement among some 50 canners limiting the pack of the California crop to 218,000 tons (10,000.000 cases). Packers were to pay peach growers $20 per ton for their product (last year's price: $6.50). They were also to contribute $2.50 for every ton they packed to a fund with which to compensate growers for their unharvested...
Last Sunday Modesto, Calif, placed the cornerstone of its new postoffice building with appropriate ceremony...
...conditions today. . . . The committee deliberated and finally selected TIME as the one publication that would cover the entire field of human endeavor for the current week. So the cornerstone contains TIME, copies of the local newspapers, the Bible, the Constitution of the United States and a business directory of Modesto...
...KIMMEL Secretary Modesto Chamber of Commerce Modesto, Calif...