Word: riveras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Accused of sympathizing with Leon Trotsky, now en route to Mexico in exile, Muralist Diego Rivera, a Trotskyite-Communist leader, was beaten up in a Mexico City restaurant, his wife punched in the stomach when she attempted to intervene...
Tales were told of hunters who had been beaten, of other strange disappearances among men who had trespassed on the King Ranch. The Mexican consul at Brownsville suggested that the Rangers also look for two Mexicans, Jesus Rivera and Reyes Ramirez, who were last seen months ago walking into the King Ranch to hunt. But the Blantons were white men and citizens. Rangers were kept as busy disarming posses as scouring miles & miles of the King Ranch...
...been the Capital of the Whites who acknowledge Francisco Franco as their President and Generalissimo. In an eye-for-an-eye spirit, the Whites replied to the Red execution fortnight ago of the eldest son of Spain's onetime Dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera by reporting executed last week at Segovia José Largo Calvo, 22-year-old son of the Premier...
...Muralist Rivera contributed a series of brilliant panels in true fresco of oppressed Indians, galloping bandits, donkey-faced professors, starving peons. One panel expressed Muralist Rivera's opinion of dictatorships, showed a gawping creature with the Roosevelt smile, Mussolini chin, Hitler brow and mustache, waving a flag composed of the Nazi, U. S. and Japanese colors. Below him an officer in Mexican uniform with a calf's head was dancing with an Indian woman...
Hotel Keeper Pani waited for the fresco to dry and set, then with superficial overpainting removed the calf-faced officer, changed the colors of the flag, changed the features of the composite dictator. Muralist Rivera once had an entire fresco panel by Jean Chariot chopped off a Mexican wall because it did not match his own work on the same building, but when his mural in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center was destroyed two years ago (TIME, Feb. 26, 1934 et ante), he raised such a howl that sympathizers enabled him to repaint it in Mexico City's Palace...