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...Glasse wrote on official Foreign Office stationery a letter to the Motor License Department of the London County Council-a British Labor stronghold headed by famed Herbert Morrison, who may well be the next Labor Prime Minister. He asked that Don Jose Fernandez Villaverde, secretary to the Duke of Alba, who is the representative in London of Rightist Spain, be granted a renewal of his driving license "without requiring him to undergo a driving test or pay the fee of five shillings normally chargeable...
...Duke of Alba and his staff," added Civil Servant Glasse as his clinching argument and indiscretion, "are regarded officially as diplomats in all but name...
This effort to save five shillings ($1.25) blew up around His Majesty's Government last week a whirlwind of Labor charges that they have secretly recognized the Spanish Rightist Government. Alba, one of the very bluest-blooded grandees of Spain and one of the wealthiest under King Alfonso XIII, announced in regard to the affair: "It was a plot of the Reds, that...
That most colorful of Spanish capitalists, illiterate Juan March, onetime tobacco smuggler, chief civilian backer of General Franco's armies, was back in Gibraltar last week after a hurried trip to impoverished Italy with the Duke of Alba in search of more aid. Loudly he reassured nervous Rightist supporters with the statement that he had authorized General Franco to spend $1,500,000,000 "subscribed abroad," by whom Juan March would...
...Paso Jew named Jacob Ehrlich, who calls himself Jack Earle when on exhibition, claims to be 8 ft. 6 in. That height seems to be a favorite among sideshow giants. John G. Tarver of Alba, Tex., claims it. Clifford Thompson of Stevens Point, Wis. claims an inch more. Dr. Humberd frankly does not believe them. He insists that they fake their real heights by wearing high-heeled shoes and tall hats...