Word: pedro
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...permission to travel to France for his health. He left behind half a century of masterpieces that embraced not only portraits and war etchings but also gay nudes, spooky fantasies, still lifes, street scenes and dozens of bullfight pictures. With six action pictures illustrating the Spanish ballad of Fray Pedro and the bandit Maragato (in which the priest disarms the bandit and shoots him in the pants), Goya had done his bit toward inventing the modern comic strip. In Bordeaux, he joined a group of Spanish exiles, one of whom described him as "deaf, old, awkward, feeble [but] so happy...
...signed by the leader of Puerto Rico's fanatic Nationalists, Pedro Albizu Campos (see THE HEMISPHERE...
...soldiers. Hundreds of Nationalists were rounded up and imprisoned. By the end of the second day, Governor Munoz could report that Puerto Rico's worst uprising since the U.S. took over the island from Spain in 1898 seemed well under control. When police cornered diehard Nationalist Chief Pedro Albizu Campos, 59, in his San Juan headquarters, Governor Mufioz Marin ordered the besiegers to move cautiously. He wanted to cast no cloak of martyrdom over the Nationalists' hero...
Cape & Hamburg. Up to that point, even Puerto Rican police had no real conception of the Nationalists' full, fanatic plans. They had begun to look on sickly, yanqui-hating Pedro Albizu Campos as no more than a noisy reminder of the days when "independence" was the rallying cry of all diehard Caribbean extremists. The son of a wealthy Spanish sugar merchant and his father's Negro mistress, he had gone to Harvard ('16), returned to Puerto Rico embittered by a World War I hitch in a Puerto Rican Negro regiment...
...Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico was formed in 1928, with a violent anti-American policy asserting that the U.S. has no legal claim to the island. Pedro Albizu Campos, a Harvard graduate and the present leader of the party, first drew attention to himself in 1931 by virtue of his revolutionary activities...