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...Named for Augusto Cesar Sandino, a guerrilla leader who fought against occupying U.S. Marines in the late 1920s and was executed in 1934 by the founder of Nicaragua's ruling dynasty, Tachito's father Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza Garcia...
From the very beginnings of the international oil trade in the 1920s, Blair discovered a pattern of price fixing and cozy marketing arrangements by which the big companies divided up the world for their own gain and tried to ruin any small independent firm that sought to cut prices or intrude on their turf. No other industry, Blair implied, so depended on bribes and payoffs...
...that he too has "rattling around in my head some near-biblical family stories told and retold by my grandmother." Like many white Southerners, Marmon chafed against the "distorting experience" of segregation and, to help counteract it, wrote his senior thesis at Princeton on the Harlem renaissance of the 1920s. Correspondent Edward Boyer, who sat in on the interview with Haley, felt a shock of recognition when he saw Roots on TV. Boyer's maternal grandparents were born slaves, and his grandfather had watched General Sherman's troops march through Georgia -marveling, as any nine-year...
...scandal of London in the 1920s was the young poet Edith Sitwell. She paraded around town dressed in exotic costumes and wearing gigantic sapphires on her fingers. She wrote "positively outrageous poetry" and she went around discovering poets, like Dylan Thomas who were even more scandalous than herself. According to director Peter Sellars '80 Facade," An Entertainment' the sparkling musical parodies which William Walton wrote for Sitwell' poetry has "no plot, no characters." Then why did Sellars decide to stage this extravagant new production of poetry puppetry, mime and dance and why did the Loeb (whoever is actually running...
Eliot's successor, President Lowell, imposed quotas for Jewish students at Harvard in the early 1920s. In 1927, he served on a special three-man panel which made the final determination that Sacco and Vanzetti be executed. In 1936, at Harvard's Tercentenary celebration, a group of Harvard alumni circulated a pamphlet showing how the arguments Lowell used in justifying Sacco and Vanzetti's executions were similar to those being used to promote fascist movements in Europe...