Word: posting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...flows in Mexican elections, but not since the first days of THE Revolution had there been such violence on an election day. Heavy gunfire did not begin until nearly noon, when Almazanistas attacked the barricaded building of El Popular, CTM newspaper. Two were killed. Other clashes occurred near the Post Office (four dead) and in Santo Domingo Garden (two dead). So it went until 2 o'clock when, election or no election, Mexicans took their siestas. At 4:30 the shooting began again. Bombs, tear gas, machine guns were brought into play. Federal troops, cavalry, police did their share...
...sport fans witnessed a milestone in prizefight annals: the first million-dollar gate. Last week, on the 19th anniversary of that historic Dempsey-Carpentier battle, Jersey City was the scene of another heavyweight prize fight that will probably go down in history as the wretchedest of the post-Dempsey...
...still looks much as it did when Coronado explored New Mexico 400 years ago this summer. Pictured in his prize-winning tempera are its crops (corn, wheat, melons, squash), irrigated then as now from the river; its Indians dancing, drumming, hoeing, baking, carrying water; its arid hills beyond. Only post-Coronado additions are a mission and school...
...loving Ben Quintana started playing with paints in third grade, has already done murals for schools at Cochiti and Santa Fe, an Indian trading post at Albuquerque. Ben wanted to use his prize to buy "something for my family," but his father vetoed the suggestion. Like many another winner of an art award, Ben will spend his prize money on further study...
...country." If Wendell Willkie, for the last seven years president of Commonwealth & Southern Corp., is elected President of the U. S. in November, he will be the first American to step into the office direct from a business job. New Dealish Columnist Samuel Grafton of the New York Post thus summarized the convention: "Instead of using the Republican Party as a professional instrument for carrying out their will, they (anti-Roosevelt business interests) have expropriated the Party and decided to do the job themselves...