Word: toscano
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...months ago, Salvador Toscano, who is an official of Mexico's Palacio de Bellas Artes, suggested that Rivera give his collection a public airing. When art historians got busy on the collection they found that what they had long called Tarascan art, and knew almost nothing about, was actually a collection of several cultures in the states of Michoacan, Jalisco, Colima and Nayarit. A German-born ethnologist, Dr. Paul Kirchhoff, was called in to lend a hand. He found that Rivera had one of the greatest treasuries...
...Ethiopian campaign (reportedly while using dynamite to catch fish), has what passes for the voice of the Fascist conscience. His newspaper, Il Regime Fascista, has railed against the abuses of bureaucracy, against defeatists, inflation and black-market dealings. Scorza, tall, tough provincial Party boss who once cheated Credito Toscano out of $6,000,000, is one of the Party's most ruthless administrators, has run an almost continuous series of purges of apparently thousands of "cancroid creatures who have crept into the Mussolini structure...