Word: blasco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vicente Blasco Ibanez...
...hours of frantic debate, three Deputies had both eyes blacked shut. A blow from behind stunned Deputy Sigfrido Blasco, son of the late, great Spanish novelist Vicente Blasco Ibanez. Several Deputies stood off physical assaults with drawn revolvers, retained just enough sense not to fire. Along about the middle of the struggle, the National Assembly voted 227 to 41 to adopt as Article III of Spain's new Constitution (full text): "No official State religion shall exist...
...personalities were elected: Novelist Vicente Blasco Ibanez' son from Valencia, and that plump aerial cutup, Major Ramon Franco, who broke his leg last week when a campaign platform collapsed under him, from Barcelona...