Word: terras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Gabriel Terra of Uruguay, indicating that he feels he has removed from his country a Red canker of Revolution, decreed the end of all his Government's "extraordinary measures to avert internal disorders," proclaimed a joyous amnesty, invited Uruguayan political exiles to come home if they please...
Nine paintings by the Dutch water color school of the nineteenth century and a small collection of Greek terra cotta figurines were acquisitions made during the year which deserve special attention. There were also nine terra cotta heads of the first or second century B. C., from Asia Minor, acquired by exchange with the Royal Museums of Brussels...
...promote the World Revolution of the World Proletariat in all South American countries. Prime tinder for Communist firebrands are South America's traditionally disgruntled Indians, Negroes and half-breeds, but to try to funnel enough World Revolution for the whole continent through Uruguay was injudicious. Last week President Terra of Uruguay, after prolonged investigation, decided that altogether too many large checks drawn "to bearer" by the Soviet Legation in Montevideo were being cashed by individuals who, his Secret Service told him, were Communist revolutionaries...
...breaking off diplomatic relations with the U. S. S. R.. President Terra cited the unsuccessful revolt in Brazil in November, which was led by an authentic graduate of the Comintern, the Moscow bureau for fomenting the World Revolution of the World Proletariat. Declared the Uruguayan Government last week: "The Soviet Government cannot disclaim connection with the Comintern and its revolutionary program in South America, for Joseph Stalin opened and closed the last Congress of the Comintern. . . . We have proof that Minkin* was organizing a revolution in Uruguay for next February or March." In Moscow the official Bolshevik news-organ...
...Wainwright Building, of Missouri granite, sandstone, brick and terra cotta, was the world's first skyscraper to be treated artistically for what it really was: a cellular arrangement of business offices. Working in an age of romantic eclecticism when Chicago boasted "an Italo-Byzantine-French-Venetian structure with Norman windows," when no other architect knew what to do with a tall façade except to break down its height with a series of small horizontal units, Louis Sullivan's Wainwright Building, in his own words, was and is "every inch a proud and soaring thing, rising...