Word: alhambra
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alhambra, Calif...
...here to recruit at least 100 young men of college age to go back with me and fight for France and victory. Can you think of a better way to spend your summer than in Spain, Spain of the Alhambra and legends galore? What an ideal spot! And I might add that the early Spring gives promise of unusually fine weather this summer...
...Alhambra, Calif...
Alcazar and Alhambra. In broiling summer Madrid were scarcely any Ambassadors or Ministers when the Revolution broke. Of the diplomatic underlings left to run things none has hung on more tenaciously in Madrid than U. S. Third Secretary Eric Wendelin, buttressed by his spunky wife. Last week even the brave diplomatic pups of the Great Powers were about to be whistled home. To 156 U. S. citizens still in Madrid, most of whom have commercial interests there, gallant Mr. Wendelin gave notice that at any moment he might be obliged to close the U. S. Embassy and that every...
...Hall of Ambassadors of the Alhambra in Granada squatted last week marooned U. S. tourists watching troops of the Revolution taking over the proletarian quarter below. A Government air bomb fell in the garden of the Hotel Washington Irving in which six U. S. tourists were staying. Only Spaniards were killed. One, an expectant mother, convulsively gave birth to two dead babes as she expired. Later the Vicomte de Sibour, with a plane borrowed from London's Drygoods Sportsman H. Gordon Selfridge Jr. (TIME, Aug. 17), began taking off tourists, four at a time. To rescue the 19 remaining...