Word: refugee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In Mexico, meanwhile, Muralist Diego Rivera, staunch Defender of Trotsky, announced that should the Great Exile not be assassinated before or upon landing in Mexico-and this Comrade Rivera considered more than likely-Trotsky could take refuge in the Rivera home. Already, according to the muralist, four armed men have...
...Street of the Fishing Cat is only two paces wide, 30 paces long, with four houses on each side, an obscure Paris cranny favored by refugees and exiles because the rent is low. There, in 1920, the Barabas family from Hungary found refuge, while Papa Barabas tried to find work in his trade as a furrier. They were an ambitious, warmhearted, restless outfit. Anna, the oldest girl, was emotional, observant, quick to understand other people's troubles but a little helpless about helping them as she wanted to. She took care of the house, did the marketing, while...
Newt Holley (Walter Brennan) planned to serenade his son Ernie (Joel McCrea) and the latter's bride Pearl (Barbara Stanwyck) with St. Louis Blues on their wedding night. He felt the tune might be a kind of charm to bring him a grandbaby. Newt never got to play the...
In a press conference given just before sailing for South America, President Roosevelt expressed concern over what he called "hot money"-foreign capital temporarily seeking refuge in the U. S. during troubled times at home (TIME, Nov. 23).
But it was not to discuss such station-house matters as Atlas Tack that President Roosevelt summoned Messrs. Landis & Eccles last week. As was later revealed at a White House press conference, President Roosevelt was deeply concerned over the amount of foreign capital now invested in the U. S., particularly...