Word: ruiz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Valentine and again at the Seligmann Galleries, were fairly exhaustive showings of the amazingly different types of painting that contemplative, experimental Pablo Picasso Ruiz has switched through in the past 30 years, from the ''blue period" of emaciated clowns and absinthe drinkers in the 1900's, through the cubist experiments, the heavy-hipped "classical" goddesses, the pure abstractions, and the portraits, flavored strongly by Ingres, through surrealism until 1934 when, sued by his wife for divorce, he temporarily gave up painting. A morose, silent Spaniard more interested in the technique of painting than the problems of humanity...
...class, or his religion." Santayana's Spanish-born parents met in the Philippine Islands. His mother's first marriage was to George Sturgis, Boston merchant with offices in Manila, to whom she had borne five children at the time of his death. When she married Agustin Ruiz de Santayana, retired Spanish civil servant, it was with the understanding that the Sturgis children were to be brought up in Boston, as she had promised their father before he died. The family was thus separated, George Santayana remaining with his father in Spain, his mother and her older children moving...
Through a cemetery in San Antonio, Tex. one day last week moved soldiers, priests, politicians, Governor James V. Allred, San Antonio's Catholic Archbishop Arthur Jerome Drossaerts, Mexico's exiled Apostolic Delegate Leopoldo Ruiz y Flores, and a hearse bearing a coffin containing a heap of old bones. Into a fresh grave went the bones, good Catholic dust, buried 200 years ago in a San Antonio mission cemetery, lately dug up in good preservation during excavation for a new post office...
Though he chiefly blamed Political Boss and ex-President Plutarco Elias Calles for the persecution of priests in Mexico, Archbishop Ruiz, just, meticulous, declared that in one respect General Calles and the Holy See see eye to eye. "I do not believe Calles represents any danger to the principle of private property, which the Church likewise supports," observed her Apostolic Delegate, "but he does represent a threat to the Church. . . . Some of Calles' actions, such as the Government distribution of lands to the peons and the establishment of minimum wage laws in industry, have won a good deal...
Beyond the reach of rich Boss Calles' revenge is the Apostolic Delegate but not the Primate of Mexico, Archbishop Pascual Diaz. No sooner had Archbishop Ruiz sounded off from the safety of Texas last week than Archbishop Diaz's secretary in Mexico City announced with anguish: "The Primate has been arrested and I cannot find out where he is! A milkman who saw six men force the Archbishop's car to halt in a town known as El Arbolito has just told me the dreadful news...