Word: nationale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Other directors and officers will be drawn from the banks acquired and from the firms sponsoring the corporation. Approximately $500,000,000 of the stock will be kept to provide for national expansion. Announcing the plans the organizers said: "For several years the opinion of bankers through the country has...
* Banks to be immediately acquired are: The Marine Trust Co. of Buffalo; Union Trust Co. of Rochester; Manufacturers National Bank of Troy; Cortlant Trust Co., Cortlant; Lackawanna National Bank, Lackawanna; Niagara Falls Trust Co., Niagara Falls; Niagara County National Bank and Trust Co., Lockport; State Trust Co., North Tonawanda; Workers...
Dissatisfied, the returning painters formed a guild called the "Revolutionary Syndicate of Technical Workers, Painters and Sculptors" and offered to decorate buildings in a true Mexican style. With Diego Rivera (TIME, May 6) as mas ter they received a contract to paint murals for the National Preparatory School in Mexico...
All this disturbed the worthies of official Mexico. Caricatured in characteristic poses, the bureaucrats were pictured as drunk, picking the pockets of symbolic figures or busy at murder and rape. Infuriated, they threatened to whitewash the walls. Students mobbed the building, stoned and scratched the murals. Finally the Minister of...
Jose Clemente Orozco started as a caricaturist. Early he gained a reputation for diabolical satire and was called the 'Mexican Goya. In the Mexican National Academy he studied painting and drew rude portraits of his masters. They told him he could not draw and sent him away. After this he...