Word: cordoba
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voice of The Living God-whose words are mostly verbatim from the Gospels-is that of Actor Pedro de Cordoba, good Roman Catholic. The reporter is Walter Connolly. Oldtime Cinemactress Mary Carr (Over the Hill) plays an old woman, selling palm leaves at a church, who guides the reporter back to Jerusalem. What he sees there he tells with straightforward reverence. His description of the Crucifixion is considerably less lurid than that of the French original (soon to be published in translation by Sheed & Ward). Excerpt from the NBC version...
...estimated at 600,000 (including 10,000 non-Spanish), the Rightist Army at some 400,000 (including 50,000 non-Spanish whites, 30,000 Moors). Each side was busy with widely separated, half-hearted and ineffective offensives at the Leftist-held Ebro River salient and at Rightist-held Cordoba, but the bogged-down Spanish war made a spurt of news when at Geneva the League was suddenly told by Leftist Premier Dr. Juan Negrin that he will speed up and continue his recent evacuations of foreign volunteers from Leftist Spain until not a single member of the famed International Brigades...
...Valencia, the Rightists' famed radiorating General Queipo de Llano, commander-in-chief of southern Rightist Spain, was last week ordered to drive against another Leftist balloon-shaped salient. This balloon, 3,125 sq. mi. of the rich, mineral-producing Estremadura region, bulged into Rightist, lines north of Cordoba and extended to within 50 miles of the Portuguese border. This week, as military observers had long expected, one knife thrust through thinly held Leftist lines did the trick. The balloon burst, leaving the Rightists in possession of several thousand prisoners, 5,000 head of cattle and the strategic copper, iron...
Last week Rightist troops were able to bite off 170 more square miles of Leftist territory, and Leftists in turn nibbled away three square miles from the Right. The Left advance was in the vague, poorly held line northwest of Cordoba in the south, while the Rightist bite, close to the Pyrenees near Jaca, included a rich plum, the strategically important San Pedro Hill, one of the key points in the long delayed, highly advertised Rightist offensive on the Aragon front that was to end the war before winter...
...came the sound of galloping hoofs, and with it a courier, out of breath and panting on his well-accoutred charger. He had ridden miles, haste-post-haste, to catch the wanderers. He had news. Good news: the Queen would see them; she would help them! Come back to Cordoba. The Queen would sell her jewels that the traveller and his companion might have a fleet to seek a Western passage to the Indies and the far-flung realms of the East...