Word: senors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clue to what will happen when the depression has lasted long enough to reduce the entire national corps of creative artists to the status of Government pensioners. Lugubrlous as the prospect is, it is not without its attractions: Mr. Mencken drawing a weekly stipend for turning out D.A.R. brochures, Senor Rivera naturalized and dotting the public parks of the land with equestrian General Pershings, a qualified muralist doing over the replastered Dartmouth Library walls with an "I pledge Allegiance to My Flag" motif . . . and subsidized humorists doing what they can with...
...islands. The factions having fought themselves into a compromise, all had to accept it, though nearly everyone believed that the gradual rise of the U. S. tariff against Philippine sugar would eventually ruin the islands. However, with the President's cheery words still ringing in his ears, Senor Quezon left the White House saying, "I am very happy. . . ." In far off Manila Governor General Murphy (who may soon lose his authority and change his title to "High Commissioner") announced that he would call a special session of the island legislature May 1 to establish the Philippine Commonwealth...
...word "social" to "public" and signed it. It took Calles' men six months to get him out of office and make his law a dead-letter. Whereupon some 15,000 poor Veracruz farmers armed themselves and went to war against the Government. Boss Calles began to suspect that Senor Tejeda was a troublemaker. He knew it when Tejeda resigned from the National Revo lutionary Party, announced that he was a candidate for President and roved out of his home State to stump all Mexico. All the citizens of Nicolas Romero were on hand last week to hear him speak...
Into Cuba's new Cabinet beaming President Mendieta drafted as Secretary of the Treasury a onetime lawyer for the National City Bank, Senor Joaquin Martinez Saenz. From Havana the Republican New York Herald Tribune's alert Tom Pettey cabled...
...plot is a simple one, and it is thematically unvaried throughout. If you are looking for an evening of good 100 per cent American smut, this is it. There's no nastiness in it; the only cloud in the welkin of direct and open-faced lechery is the obnoxious Senor Gomez, whom the play-wright gives no shrift...