Word: pueblos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Raton Pass. Still quarreling with his father's partner, Miguel left the company, visited Denver, saw Leadville at the peak of its boom, became a member of the Chaffee Light Artillery of Colorado and served during the railroad strike of 1879, when the strikers took the roundhouse at Pueblo. Then he settled down, aged 20, to a quiet life in Las Vegas, where there were 29 killings in one month, 18 in another ten weeks, and where, as he remembered it, "one of the important events of . . . 1880 was the opening of a new saloon...
...then Socialist Government of Madrid that Edward Bruce of PWA fame does now to the New Deal in the U. S. He was a great friend of Madrid's Socialist Boss Indalecio Prieto, had just been commissioned to do a series of enormous murals in the Casa del Pueblo and the University. Knowing nothing about Mary Hoover except that she ate well and drank well, Artist Quintanilla took her on as his assistant, taught her to paint in fresco, kept her slaving on a scaffold all summer long...
...particularly for the excellent report on March 25 (114th anniversary of Greece's independence from Turkey) captioned ''Farewell to Venizelos." We are certain that Venizelists and Tsaldarists alike in this country are grateful for such reporting. DR. MARC WILKINSON Retired Governor American-Hellenic Educational Progressive Association Pueblo, Colo...
...life, he plotted ardently for the overthrow of Alfonso XIII and with his own hands ran up the first Republican flag over the Royal Palace. Socialist Indalecio Prieto was Minister of Finance then and commissioned Luis Quintanilla to paint huge frescoes on the walls of the Casa del Pueblo and the great new University City out at Moncloa Park. Free-spending Prieto lost his job and Spain swung farther to the Right. Fearing a Fascist dictatorship, perhaps even a restoration of the Bourbon Monarchy, Luis Quintanilla became a conspirator again...
...Cardenas of Mexico, to the effect that the time has come for that country to prepare for a new life and outlook, gets to the heart of the matter without mincing words. As one who was expelled from the republic when a Protestant mission school was closed (Instituto del Pueblo, Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Feb. 15, 1926), I feel that TIME errs in that it does not state that there is a parallel between the present trouble in Mexico and that of the Orthodox Church and the Soviet Government some years ago. It is only natural that a revolutionary government should...