Word: barcelona
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spain's Nazi-loving Dictator Francisco Franco took a tighter grip on his war-scarred country last week. Before El Caudillo in Madrid's El Prado Palace stood four Roman Catholic prelates, the Bishops of Barcelona, Ciudad Real, Jaén and Salamanca. They were there to do what none of their predecessors had done since medieval days: take an oath of fealty to the head of the Spanish State...
...Barcelona last month the U.S. Ambassador to Spain, Carlton J. H. Hayes, made a statement that had repercussions (TIME, March 8). Shipments from America, he said, had built up Fascist Spain's oil stocks "considerably higher than the present per capita distribution of the Atlantic seaboard of the U.S." To many this smelled of State Department appeasement-the kind once tendered Japan and Vichy. Sections of the U.S. press viewed with alarm. Some Eastern Congressmen viewed with anger...
Last week Carlton J. H. Hayes, U.S. Ambassador to Fascist Spain (TIME, Feb. 22), told the American Chamber of Commerce in Barcelona that the U.S. has recently sent Spain...
This promoter of Pan-American good will was born, 42 years ago, in Barcelona, Spain, where he started as a conventional, long-haired concert violinist. After fiddling for five years as a concert side show to the late, great Enrico Caruso, Cugat settled in Los Angeles, where he made a high-toned debut as soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. When the critics failed to rave, Cugat gave up the violin in disgust, took a job as a cartoonist on the Los Angeles Times...
...Four submarines succeeded in making their way out of Toulon: the 597-ton Iris turned up in Barcelona next day, was interned there; the Casablanca, of 1,384 tons, the Marsouin, of 974 tons, and another as yet unnamed, were reported to have arrived in Algiers...