Word: franciscos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Britons planning to brave the terrors of tourism in the New World, especially to see the "exhibitions" in New York and San Francisco, the Manchester Guardian's New York correspondent last week sent to his paper timely warnings and encouragement...
When the Spanish Civil War started, Latin American embassies in Spain gave refuge to and probably saved the skins of thousands of Generalissimo Francisco Franco's sympathizers. Moreover, the Latin Americans always demanded (and most of the time got) safe conduct for their refugees to the border. Argentina once threatened to send a battleship to Spain to protect refugees held at the summer embassy in San Sebastian, and Argentine protection allowed Ramon Serrano Suner, Minister of Interior in the present Franco Cabinet, to escape from a Madrid prison to Nationalist territory. Peru at one time protected 360 Nationalists...
...Graf Zeppelin in 1928 she paid $3,000); Mrs. Elizabeth Stettinius Trippe, wife of Pan American President Juan Terry Trippe; Captain Torkild Rieber, Board Chairman of Texas Corp.; United States Lines President John M. Franklin; Investment Banker Harold Leonard Stuart; a lawyer from Allentown, Pa., named Julius Rapoport; San Francisco Shipowner Roger Lapham, whose American Hawaiian Steamship Co. was in trouble with union stay-at-homes...
...Moto Takes a Vacation (Twentieth Century-Fox), but it is a busman's holiday. Detective Moto (Peter Lorre) convoys a much-coveted bauble on a voyage from Honolulu to San Francisco, spends most of the time tossing red herring back into a sea of circumstance...
...outside of biology proper his preoccupations range from the ethics of science to the meaning of life, from democracy to educational psychology. It is characteristic that he does not go to California this week merely to take part in Stanford's symposium on the cell. In San Francisco next week he is scheduled to address the National Education Association on "Education for Democracy...