Word: staying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arriving here today for a series of three lectures on the "Changing West" which begins at 8 o'clock tonight in the New Lecture Hall, William Allen White, famous journalist and editor of the Emporia, Kansas, "Gazette," will be the guest of President Conant during his stay...
...normal operating areas" in the Pacific. But he had left in the Atlantic (and for the New York World's Fair) much more than the small Atlantic Squadron normally on eastern duty. By the order, four battleships, twelve cruisers, 23 destroyers, two aircraft carriers, six submarines would stay behind. Westward were to go eight battleships, 15 cruisers, 43 destroyers, three aircraft carriers, 20 auxiliaries...
Grand Duke of Coshocton: "Now, John, no double-crossing. We've got to stick together in order to stay apart. If we let anyone bring us together we're sunk...
...Muralist Diego Rivera arranged to have the exile go to Mexico. Muralist Rivera's young, pretty German-Mexican wife, Frida Kahlo, a painter in her own right, put Trotsky in the blue-washed, bougainvillea-covered house in Coyoacán where she had been born, told him to stay as long as he wanted. At first the Trotskys and the Riveras got along beautifully. Diego Rivera issued a furious pro-Trotskyist manifesto to the world. Léon Trotsky settled down to the first peace he had had in years. Frida Rivera painted a picture of herself holding...
...revolutionary and disloyal words. Trotsky made some remarks about Rivera. Rivera found the remarks "unacceptable." Trotsky dispatched a friend to Rivera with 200 pesos ($40) as rent, so as to be free of obligation. Without indicating whether he thought that was enough rent for a two-year stay, Rivera handed the cash to a Marxist magazine, Cleve. Trotsky felt snubbed. Last week the two men came to a parting of the ways: Léon Trotsky announced that he was quitting the Rivera house, Diego Rivera promptly announced that he was quitting the Trotsky movement...