Word: franciscos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Safe in San Francisco...
...Francisco, Calif...
Signer. Even in western Europe it was aggressors' week. At Burgos it was announced that Generalissimo Francisco Franco had definitely thrown in his lot with the Dictators: had signed up with Germany, Italy, Hungary and Japan in the anti-Comintern Pact. For the French Government this was a severe defeat. Before recognizing Franco's Government France had tried to get a promise that Spain would not sign the anti-Comintern Pact. Failing that, France had sent her most distinguished soldier, Marshal Philippe Petain, as Ambassador to Burgos to deal gently and well with the Spanish soldier-dictator. Moreover...
Three months ago convivial L. M. Parton, secretary of the Nocona Chamber of Commerce, conceived a publicity stunt. His idea: a 2,000-mile pony express race from his little (pop. 2,352) North Texas leather-manufacturing town to San Francisco, to tie Nocona to the tail of the Golden Gate International Exposition...
...Diego Rivera has not since been forgotten in the U. S. it is thanks to two beautiful frescoes in San Francisco, one in Detroit, and at least partly to the writings of his faithful friend, Bertram David Wolfe.* Last week Wolfe paid Rivera, now 52, the greater tribute of a biography...