Word: franciscos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...step toward legitimatizing the Hitler grab by according de facto recognition to Slovakia. They named Peter Pares, formerly a British consul in the Sudetenland, as consul at Bratislava. Britain also was the first big democratic power to urge recognition of Benito Mussolini's seizure of Ethiopia and Generalissimo Francisco Franco's victory in Spain...
...When Francisco Franco restored his private property, Spain's ex-King Alfonso, exiled in Rome, donned the ecclesiastical-looking robes of the Spanish Military Order, meekly said: "I am a simple soldier, obedient to the orders of Generalissimo Franco...
Visitors to the New York World's Fair last week: Leland Whitman Cutler, president of San Francisco's Golden Gate Fair (Said he: "You have me, gentlemen."); Alexis Carrel (to inspect the Carrel-Lindbergh mechanical heart in the Medicine and Public Health Building). Dedicating their nations' pavilions were Norway's Crown Prince Olav and Crown Princess Martha; Denmark's Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Ingrid; Sweden's Count Folke Bernadotte; Finland's Minister to the U. S. Hjalmar J. Procope; Rumania's Minister to the U. S. Radu Irimescu...
...Francisco's Golden Gate Fair: ex-Governor Alfred E. Smith was proclaimed Mayor of Treasure Island. Cracked he: "What we need in this country is good old-fashioned 'come-outside-and-put-me-out' Americanism." Others: Congressman Martin Dies (to harangue a patriotic meeting), Diva Grace Moore, Shirley Temple and parents...
...Francisco's Golden Gate International Exposition had other tribulations. It needs to average 87,000 visitors a day to break even. In the three months it has been running, it has averaged only 33,610. Last week it borrowed another $750,000, bringing to $3,250,000 its borrowings from banks and industry in addition to $6,000,000 subscribed by loyal Californians. It was clear something had to be done. It was. Plump, pompous Chief Director Harris De Haven Connick, who had held his $17,500 job for over a year, was fired...