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...Glasse wrote on official Foreign Office stationery a letter to the Motor License Department of the London County Council-a British Labor stronghold headed by famed Herbert Morrison, who may well be the next Labor Prime Minister. He asked that Don Jose Fernandez Villaverde, secretary to the Duke of Alba, who is the representative in London of Rightist Spain, be granted a renewal of his driving license "without requiring him to undergo a driving test or pay the fee of five shillings normally chargeable...
...Sorpresa, the Provincial Chief of Detectives, famed Fernandez Bazan, began to round up suspects. The truck driver, one La Fuente, who had carried Father Pereyra Iraola's baggage from San Simon and had left just before the kidnapping, was dismissed after claiming that two unknown men had asked him for road directions. Two neighborhood vagrants, a Russian and an Italian, were vainly questioned. Then police captured a thick-witted peon named José Gancedo who had disappeared from La Sorpresa the night of the kidnapping, and who aroused further suspicion by failing to explain where...
...entered the main square. Shortly after noon two Anarchists, Amadeo Salvan and Fernández Ubarri, loaded themselves with sacks of dynamite weighing 40 lbs. each, and made a dash for the church, each with a split fuse held in one hand and a lighted cigaret in the other. Fernandez Ubarri was hit, for he was seen to fall twice; nevertheless he crawled up to the church wall. Half a minute later both charges went off with a sharp crack, tearing the two volunteers limb from limb. This was immediately followed by a dull, heavy roar as one wall...
Since women are barred from fighting bulls professionally in Spain, they can break into this lucrative industry only by dire expedients. In Madrid last week beauteous blonde Maruja Fernandez, who was a beauteous brunette two years ago when she broke into the bull ring for charity performances, declared: "I believe the Spanish fighting bull is nobler than man. Man is not like the fighting bull which will follow your cape if you are skillful. Man is always seeking advantages and trying to keep woman at a disadvantage. A fighting bull thrills me more than any man I have ever...
Commented Spain's matador from Brooklyn, famed Sidney Franklin: "Maruja Fernandez never fights anything bigger than a two-year-old calf, and Heaven help her if she ever does...