Word: riveras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since March, Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, wild-eyed Fascist son of Spain's former dictator, has languished in Madrid's new model prison charged with inciting insurrection through his blueshirted followers, the Falange Espanola. Last week Blueshirt de Rivera was in court again. Detectives searching his home had found two pistols...
Fascist Primo de Rivera is a lawyer, so he defended himself, wearing the black cap and fluttering gown of a Spanish barrister. Arguments were unavailing. Judges listened patiently, then slapped a five-month additional sentence on him for his pistols...
Listening to John Carroll's salty talk, looking at his brawny arms and deep-tanned, seamy face, most observers would conclude that here was a man who, if he painted at all, would do something like the Rivera murals of Industry downstairs in the Institute's main court - hard, realistic, packed with sharp detail, maplike in their bright, crowded colors (TIME. April 3, 1933). But Painter Carroll's frescoes were simple, subdued, purely decorative idealizations. One of them, called Morning, showed three gracile, rosy-fleshed women floating in a pale blue, white-clouded sky. Another, Afternoon, showed...
...Right, its only true Fascist Party, called Falange Española (Spanish Phalanx) which did not win a single Cortes seat in the election. Its chief is the handsome, 34-year-old lawyer-son of Spain's famed Dictator under the monarchy, the late General Primo de Rivera. Eldest of a hot-headed trio of born troublemakers, José Antonio Primo de Rivera was closeted with Adolf Hitler shortly before Germany's 1934 Blood Purge, returned to Spain in time to lead his blue-shirted pistoleros against Spain's October 1934 Revolution of the Left...
...officers for the present year are: Erwin Jaffe, 3G, president; Thomas Allen, '36, vice-president: Jose de Varon, '38, secretary; Earle S. Randall, 3G, treasurer; and Edward Coffey, '36, fifth member of the Executive Board. Professor Rivera continues as faculty advisor. As has already be mentioned, all members of Harvard University who are interested in Spanish are eligible for membership. The last open meeting will be held tonight at 7.45 in the Adams House Upper Common Room: at that time a more complete outline of the proposed activities for the year will be given, a short play will be presented...