Word: franciscos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...southwest of Madrid the Leftists launched a furious offensive, intended if successful to cut those Rightist supply lines which run in from Portugal. At latest reports this offensive, designed to distract Generalissimo Francisco Franco from his onslaught upon Barcelona last week, had gained little...
Cities were and are laid out in indefinitely expanding grids of rectangular blocks with regard neither to topography nor function, opening the way for "fat pieces of 'honest' municipal jobbery in the grading and filling of streets." Hilly San Francisco was platted as if it were a prairie town, to the perpetual economic loss of its citizens. Arterial highways were made too narrow, residential streets too wide...
...doctors last year decided that they would continue to treat the poor for nothing. But an articulate minority want the Government to pay the medical bills of the indigent, also the expenses of medical schools, research institutions and hospitals. When the American Medical Association meets in San Francisco June 13, this doctors' quarrel, now a distant thunderhead, is expected to break into a real storm...
...miles nearer France on the coast. Leftist Premier Dr. Juan Negrin called for 100,000 fresh volunteers for the People's Army, and Defense Minister Indalecio Prieto no longer spoke of victory but tried to persuade the French that unless they sent help the methodical advance of Generalissimo Francisco Franco might not stop in Spain but smash right on into the French Republic...
...last week Continental Illinois was selling at $55 and there had been several dividends paid in stock. Hercules Life was the second largest owner, with some 15,000 shares. This tempting asset has long been eyed hungrily by Amadeo Peter ("A. P.") Giannini of San Francisco, who is to the West's banking what the Rockies are to its topography. Mr. Giannini's Transamerica Corp., once the biggest bank holding company in the world, is now being transformed into an investment trust because A. P. doesn't have to wet his finger more than once...