Word: riverae
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...Mexico, meanwhile, Muralist Diego Rivera, staunch Defender of Trotsky, announced that should the Great Exile not be assassinated before or upon landing in Mexico-and this Comrade Rivera considered more than likely-Trotsky could take refuge in the Rivera home. Already, according to the muralist, four armed men have kidnapped the caretaker of his studio, beating him severely and pitching him out of their automobile "for refusing to talk...
Accused of sympathizing with Leon Trotsky, now en route to Mexico in exile, Muralist Diego Rivera, a Trotskyite-Communist leader, was beaten up in a Mexico City restaurant, his wife punched in the stomach when she attempted to intervene...
...Barabas neighbors were responsible for most of this. There was Liiv, a Lithuanian professor who had been a socialist dictator of food supplies in a brief post-War revolution and whose friend was now Bardichinov, who had been a banker in Russia. When Primo de Rivera is in power in Spain they are joined by a gentle anarchist named Alvarez; when Rivera falls, Alvarez disappears, replaced by the courtly Spanish Prince Maura. When Mussolini takes power in Italy a cultivated minister of finance appears with his beautiful daughter. At first the refugees plot and conspire, then gradually make friends until...
Tales were told of hunters who had been beaten, of other strange disappearances among men who had trespassed on the King Ranch. The Mexican consul at Brownsville suggested that the Rangers also look for two Mexicans, Jesus Rivera and Reyes Ramirez, who were last seen months ago walking into the King Ranch to hunt. But the Blantons were white men and citizens. Rangers were kept as busy disarming posses as scouring miles & miles of the King Ranch...
...been the Capital of the Whites who acknowledge Francisco Franco as their President and Generalissimo. In an eye-for-an-eye spirit, the Whites replied to the Red execution fortnight ago of the eldest son of Spain's onetime Dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera by reporting executed last week at Segovia José Largo Calvo, 22-year-old son of the Premier...