Word: salvadore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...huge spoon across a rocky mountain, all painted in meticulous mid-Victorian detail. Month ago a U.S. surrealist named Peter Blume won first prize ($1,500) at the Carnegie International Exhibition in Pittsburgh with his South of Scranton (TIME, Oct. 29). Last week a still abler Parisian surrealist named Salvador Dali arrived in Manhattan with a load of minutely painted canvases to bewilder the eye of logic...
...called a Parisian because that city has been his home for six years. Actually he is a Spaniard, an admirer, friend and onetime disciple of his fellow Catalan expatriate Pablo Picasso. It is hard enough for any surrealist to explain what he means, but dapper, quick little Salvador Dali was additionally handicapped last week by the fact that he speaks no English at all. Still he made a valiant effort. Reporters were ushered into his hotel suite which had been prepared as a visual object lesson. In the centre of the room was a small table. On the table...
Only other recognizer: El Salvador...
Geneva sat up and stared last week when Salvadorean Consul General Leon Siguenza went round to the Manchukuan Embassy in Tokyo to recognize that country all over again publicly. Thus El Salvador was disclosed as the first League member to break the League's nonrecognition resolution and set a precedent that may cause serious trouble.* No matter how gingerly they handled Japan, nobody in Geneva was afraid of El Salvador. Sternly they talked of booting the recalcitrant little republic out of the League. Foreign Minister Angel Araujo ruffled his hackles to defend El Salvador's honor...
...Salvador never actually voted for the League Assembly's resolution, was one of five or six minor nations that "forgot" to reply to the League's check-up circular...