Word: peasant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into the city of San Luis Potosi last week streamed an ever-increasing number of military men, former deputies, ex-senators, labor heads, peasant leaders. There they lined up outside the temporary office of Lázaro Cárdenas, waited long hours to get a chance to tell Mexico's radical President how very loyal they were to him. Even those hitherto considered cool to Cárdenas' policies swore undying fealty, branded rebellious General Saturnino Cedillo "the most ungrateful traitor alive." In Mexico City, 27 State Governors assured Señor Cárdenas of their...
...dancing bent hardly know which way to turn. Last month an article in Die Spielschar, organ of the Hitler Youth Movement, moped long and heavily over this question. Die Spielschar agreed that the motions prescribed by swing are unworthy of a sober man, but protested that rump-slapping peasant dances were equally inappropriate for sophisticated Germans. With these two categories of dancing verboten, there would be nothing left but waltzes. "For those who seek a way to graceful and natural German dancing," sighed Die Spielschar, "the points of departure . . . are terrifyingly...
Last week, dramatically affirming that the Plan still "represents my highest ideals," Strongman Batista suddenly announced that further legislation on it would be "suspended" until after the Presidential elections early next year. Reason for this unexpected move: squat, peasant-born Batista.has engineered the seating of five men in the Presidential chair and now hankers to fill the position himself. The Plan, criticized by a good many Cubans as an attempt to regiment all phases of their national life, is regarded by Boss Batista as too much of a controversial issue to push at the time of an election...
...Marche MilitaireSchubert *Overture to "Edmont" Beethoven *Liebestraum Liszt-Herbert *"Aida" Fantasia Verdi Austrian Peasant Dancers Schonherr *Meditation from "Thais" Massenet *Bolero Ravel *"By the Beautiful Blue Danube," Waltzes Strauss *"Night and Day" Porter *American Patrol Meacham *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...
...Coronation March from "The Prophet"Meyerbeer *"Poet and Peasant," Overture Suppe *Country Gardens Grainger *Fantasia, "Cavalleria Rusticana" Mascagni *Prelude to "Lohengrin" Wagner *Marche Slave Tchaikovsky *Fantasy, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" Churchill-Bodge *"Espana" Waltzes Waldteufel March, "Stars and Stripes Forever" Sousa *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...