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Strikes gripped Valencia, Tarragona, Bilbao. In Guillena began the first cowherds' strike in Spanish history. Hundreds of cowherds rode in off the bleak Andalusian ranges, demanding more pay, leaving hundreds of black Spanish cattle bellowing pitifully for water. The Governor of Se ville mobilized a squadron of cavalry and sent them forth with a ringing message that reporters wired round the world: "Soldiers of Spain! Go to Guillena and lead the cows to pasture...
...world's word record is Erasto Garcia's; see TIME'S Miscellany, Nov. 3 wherein is stated: "At Bilbao, Spain, Erasto Garcia wrote 5,725 words (three chapters) from Don Quixote on a post card, claimed a world's record." Dr. John J. Taylor, Streator, 111. (this cover- to-cover reader's Grandaddy) in 1893, before 30 prominent Streatorites, wrote on a postcard 14,564 words. The subject: i Kings, 13th Chapter containing 1,142 words. This written twelve times with 860 additional words on one side of a regulation U. S. postcard with...
...Bilbao, Spain, Erasto Garcia wrote 5,725 words (three chapters) from Don Quixote on a postcard, claimed a world's record...
...wishy-washy one. Says he: "I have put passion into my books-the passion of hatred, the passion of disdain, the passion of contempt!'' He is married. "Like my Basque country, I have no history, or rather it is all purely internal. Since my birth in Bilbao on the 29th of September 1864 of a Basque family, nothing has happened to me that can interest a reader. ... As to my internal life of storm and longings, of constant metaphysical and religious crises, it is scattered through my writings...
...Most Catholic Majesty Alfonso XIII of Spain, courageous,! sporting, versatile, last week watched the regatta at Bilbao. The boat races over, he exhorted the young bloods of Spain to develop patriotism with sport, adding that sportsmanship among the nations was a less expensive way of promoting international concord than the League of Nations, of which Spain, huffed, is not at present an active member. (TIME, Sept. 20, 1926).? Said he, after announcing that the country would take part in the Olympic Games next year: "I have observed with satisfaction this year the increase in your series of boat races...