Word: concepcion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seeking Divorce. Diego Maria Concepcion Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodriguez de Valpuesta, 53, toad-shaped Mexican muralist otherwise known as Diego Rivera; and his third wife, Frida Kahlo Rivera, 29, svelte German-Mexican modernist painter, classed by Diego among the four or five best in the world, owner of the Coyoacán haven where Leon Trotsky spent two years in exile; in Mexico City. Explained Muralist Rivera, his pet monkey perched on his shoulder: "There is no change in the magnificent relations between us. We are doing it in order to improve Frida...
...Fascist riots in Concepcion...
...bare offices of New York's Communist Opposition headquarters, to an oblong lecture room. There from door to door ran a set of 21 heavy, richly-colored fresco panels, a present to Communism by a man generally acknowledged to be the world's greatest muralist-Diego Maria Concepcion Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodriguez de Valpuesta...
...mounds) around Munoz. Last week the cloak-&-sword Bolivians, wearing second-hand U. S. uniforms, wielding jungle machetes, took "Fort" Jordan, backed the Paraguayans against Nanawa. their Verdun, a small French-built fort that was the last defense before the Paraguay River and Paraguay's second biggest city, Concepcion...
...police safe, took the electric light plant and telegraph office, began parading the streets calling for recruits. Few joined, but for 18 hours the Kennedys held La Paz. The uprising never crossed the Parana River, which separates Entre Rios Province from the rest of Argentina. In Concordia and Concepcion del Uruguay, police dispersed bands of rebels. Troops heading for La Paz knew no better than to telegraph ahead. The Kennedys got their message, quickly left for their ranch, leaving all but a dozen of their men to be captured. In the wood on the edge of their ranch they made...