Word: terras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Constitution's tax leaks widened as Depression rolled over South America. The Batllistas (majority wing of the Colorado Party) elected Gabriel Terra president. He felt cramped in his constitutional compartment of powers, looked for elbowroom. Last month he noted with interest Montevideo businessmen's protest meetings against heavy taxes. He called in toward Montevideo the regiments he most trusted in the volunteer Army, set them to guard all roads inland from Montevideo's peninsula. The Navy had already been reduced to one small cruiser. Looking for a safe spot to live he turned to the Fire Department...
First kick was a declaration that revolt was smoldering. To dampen it President Terra laid down a strict censorship, sent troops to take over Montevideo waterworks, power houses and jails from officials appointed by the Administrative Council. He forbade a Batllista meeting, had its ward clubs occupied...
...constitution. Proud of the old constitution was the Administrative Council's idealistic member, onetime President Baltazar Brum, good friend of Woodrow Wilson for whom he named a Montevideo avenue. The Council put in a dignified, parliamentary protest. Meeting in an all-night session, Congress instructed President Terra to undo all he had done...
...After the War, Bufano moved to San Francisco, married; had a child, deserted wife & child to study Terra Cotta glazing and firing in China." This is inaccurate. Bufano was not married until 1925, then to Virginia Howard, in Houston, Texas, by whom he had a son, Erskine Scott Wood Bufano, born in August 1928 at Ross, Calif. Mother and son have been residents of Mill Valley, Calif, for several years...
...Stradivari, and apprenticed to a marble mason. With his master he worked for years restoring the balustrades and ornaments of local churches in Cremona, Piacenza, Parma-restorations that not only copied the details but imitated the patina of nearby originals. Soon he was restoring not only marble but bronze, terra cotta and wood...