Word: valencia
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...Government is making great progress toward rooting out governmental graft, including padded payrolls. As an example of what has been accomplished, look at the budget of the city of Valencia, which has had a deficit of 2,000,000 pesetas. Without curtailing the public service, this has been converted into a favorable balance of 1,000,000 pesetas. The Government has gone ahead with the good roads program and the extension of the common-school system...
...Olaya replied that he was authorized by his Government to accept as persona grata anyone whose name should have been suggested by the Government of Panama, and he added that he was authorized by his Government, in reciprocation, to inquire whether Doctor José Maria Gonzlez Valencia would be persona grata to the Government of Panama...
...Holiness received in audience Mgr. Antonio Guizar y Valencia, Bishop of Chihuahua, Mexico. The Pontiff expressed his great anxiety over the present situation in Mexico...
...death of Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida removed the conceded leader of contemporary Spanish painting, and one of the most notable figures of the art world. Born in Valencia in 1863, he received his art education at the San Carlos Academy in his native town, from Francisco Pradilla in Madrid, and later in Italy and Paris. His first striking success was Another Margaret, awarded a gold medal at Madrid and purchased for the St. Louis Gallery. He soon became internationally known, his exhibit at the Paris Exposition of 1900 winning him the medal of honor. He also had a special exhibition...
...fine group in the Metropolitan, including Swimmers, full-length nude boys seen through transparent green water; After the Bath, a young woman emerging from the sea in a clinging yellow bathing suit, while her swain stands behind, holding a white sheet in which to wrap her; Beaching the Boat, Valencia, peasant sailors guiding three yoke of brown oxen, dragging the full-bellied sailboat through the surf. Sorolla is also represented in the Luxembourg, the Berlin National Gallery, the Venice, Madrid and Buenos Aires Museums, the Chicago Art Institute, and in many private collections of the United States and Europe...