Word: velasquez
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Boston. Edward Jackson Holmes, director of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, paid $35,000 for two tiny wood panel paintings, supposedly by Giambattista Cima de Conegliano. They were proven fakes. For his two Coneglianos and $85,000 he was offered a Velasquez portrait of a man, which hung proudly in the museum for several weeks. A fake also, it is now ignominiously in the cellar...
...offered his incarcerated rival the office of Secretary of the Treasury. Haughtily the prisoner refused. "I will not accept the Treasury post," said he, "while I am held in jail on the ridiculous charge that I am a revolutionary. I am not a revolutionist!" And sulky Señor Velasquez sat down in the dank depths of his historic dungeon...
Christopher Columbus was not only locked up, but irons were riveted on his legs, an indignity spared Federico Velasquez. The year was 1500. Columbus, with the rank of Admiral, was conducting his third series of American explorations (he later made a fourth and final voyage from Spain). Without his knowledge charges had been made against him at the Spanish Court, had been believed. King Ferdinand had appointed Courtier Francisco Bobadilla to be Governor of Hispaniola (The Spanish Isle) empowered to arrest Columbus and ship him off to Spain...
...adventure of Christopher Columbus ended happily, so did that of Federico Velasquez last week. Since he absolutely would not accept the post of Secretary of the Treasury, which would mean a shift from Opposition into the Government, it was decided that after all the best thing to do was to let him out of jail and hold the charges hanging clubwise over his head...
...lieutenant"; 2) he will be no Dictator, but an Economic Builder; 3) he will reduce his own salary ($12,000) and seek reduction of $100 a month in Congressional stipends ("Dominicans are poor, therefore all must live the same") ; 4) All civilians will be disarmed "whether my friends or Velasquez's"; 5) "if possible" a national military academy similar to West Point, with U. S. Army instructors, will be founded in Santo Domingo...