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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...extends over the high peaks of the Sierra Nevadas to the sea, where there has been no effective action since the capture of Málaga seven months ago. All this line is under control of el Caudillo Franco's most colorful subordinate, hoarse-voiced bombastic General Queipo de Llano, the "radio general...
Twice last week General Queipo de Llano was in the news. From Valencia came word that his sister Rosario, a Leftist hostage since immediately after the beginning of the war, had finally been released from jail in an exchange of prisoners. From his headquarters at Seville came a story of an attempt to kidnap the radio general himself. Weeks ago General Queipo de Llano set out on an inspection trip of the lines north of Córdoba. Entranced by his ceaseless flow of conversation, staff officers did not notice until almost too late that the chauffeur...
...Spanish Cortes (parliament) met, for the first time in history it did not sit in the traditional semicircle, divided physically as well as spiritually into Left. Centre and Right, but in an ordinary auditorium set up on the trading floor of Valencia's silk exchange, the Lonja de la Seda...
...believe is the only sure cure for the soul-sickness of many a confused modern, view with jealous alarm the spiritual patent medicines of healers, swamis, yogis, fortunetellers, popular "psychologists." But in Manhattan last week appeared a lecturer on popular psychology who was notable because he, Dr. Albert Garcia de Quevedo, is a good Catholic, working under Catholic auspices and billed as the only U. S. Catholic layman lecturing on "practical psychology...
Billed also as an "Ambassador of Sunshine," Albert de Quevedo has been lecturing throughout the U. S. for eight years. His de Quevedo Guild claims 15,000 members, each of whom Psychologist de Quevedo calls "his intimate friend." Since he began his lecture tours, Dr. de Quevedo has appeared in U. S. cities under the auspices not only of local Guilds but of such approved Catholic organizations as the Knights of Columbus and the Holy Name Society. His Manhattan debut last week was endorsed by Fordham University (Jesuit...