Word: franciscos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Victorious Generalissimo Francisco Franco proclaimed over the Burgos radio at 2:20 p. m. on March 29 that the Spanish Civil War had officially ended. His troops had occupied Madrid, Valencia, Ciudad Real, Cuenca, Jaén, Albacete-almost without resistance. Italian planes from Majorca had made a last bombing trip over Gandia, British-controlled Mediterranean port. A few anarchist soldiers were still putting up a feeble resistance in isolated districts and clean-up campaigns were bound to continue for some time. But, broadly speaking, Generalissimo Franco was right: the war was over and for the first time...
...year-old son of the U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. He had gone to Loyalist Spain on a British battleship, then to Madrid on a sightseeing tour. He had put up at the spacious U. S. Embassy as the guest of Francisco Ugarte, the Embassy's caretaker. Marveled young Mr. Kennedy at Madrid's fall: "Did you ever see anything like it?" After attending Palm Sunday Mass, he went to Burgos, planned to leave Spain soon and report to Father Kennedy his observations and conversations with Loyalist leaders, Foreign Minister Juli...
...Brazil, the gambiae spread more than 50,000 cases of malaria. In certain districts the mortality rate was as high as 10%. After leaving 90% of the Jaguaribeans feeble and impoverished, the gambiae continued their flight. If the mosquitoes should reach "the well-watered Parnahyba and Sâo Francisco River Valleys [in east-central Brazil]," wrote Mr. Fosdick, ". . . it would be impossible to prevent [their] spread to a large part of South. Central, and perhaps even North America. The Parnahyba Valley is 500 miles from Natal; the gambiae mosquitoes are already nearly half way there...
...Francisco, Australian-born Longshoreman Alfred ("Harry") Renton Bridges, West Coast C. I. O. leader, for the third time filed his intention of becoming a U. S. citizen ("first papers"). Absentminded, he forgot to get his final papers by 1928 and again 1935, or he would be in no danger of deportation...
Since 1935 wealthy residents of Hollywood and its swank suburbs have been apprehensive of an unapprehended "phantom burglar." Last week in San Francisco the phantom, one Ralph R. Graham, was finally captured, readily identified the looted houses. A few of his victims: Packer George A. Hormel; Cinemactors Gary Cooper, Tyrone Power, Miriam Hopkins, Carole Lombard; Director Frank Capra. Complained the phantom: "All of ... the movie boys and girls whose playthings I swiped . . . except Fanny Brice exaggerated the amount of stuff taken." Estimated total loot...