Word: nationale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The music is by Fausto Piñedo, a Yucatecan who has adapted European methods of writing to the methods of Mexico's popular troubadour ballads. Under the Minister of Public Education's auspices, Payambé will soon be presented in Mexico City, probably at the Arbeu Theatre...
That his country should have a national theatre was one of the ideas of the late many-minded Porfirio Diaz, onetime President of Mexico. Work on the gilded, white-marble, city-block-size structure, planned for the 1910 Mexican centennial, stopped in 1910 when Diaz was overthrown.
A lover of cacti, canoeing (with double paddle) and long cigars, Steinmetz was a human national figure. Some anecdotes:
"If Prohibition is a noble experiment, then the San Francisco fire and the Galveston flood also should be listed among the noble experiments of our national history."
The raid emphasized for Jews the significance and need of a meeting, an event, that had taken place two days before, about 1,900 miles away in Zurich, Switzerland. There, outstanding Jews of the world had assembled, for the meeting of the Jewish Council Agency, the new body uniting the...