Word: franciscos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps they come from Iowa or Arkansas and are afraid their old acquaintances will look them up and discover they aren't the big shots they have claimed to be. ... I would suggest that E. P. Waterman & friends not only campaign for the San Francisco Exposition but go themselves. The trip across the U.S. would open their eyes to the grandeur of this country and they would be amazed at the friendly spirit existing in the West...
...said Julián Besteiro, Foreign Minister of Loyalist Spain's National Defense Council, over Madrid's Union Radio last week. He was speaking directly and publicly to Burgos, 220 miles away, seat of the Government of Generalissimo Francisco Franco...
...answers largely depend on the character of Francisco Franco, and last week as Spain was about to begin another chapter in her long history, the plump, enigmatic little man who will boss it-strangely colorless for a Spaniard-and the men with whom he has surrounded himself attracted the world's curiosity...
Soldier. Born in 1892 at El Ferrol, in Galicia, the son of a naval officer, Francisco Franco was given routine military education. He entered the military school at the Alcázar, Toledo, at 14, was graduated with a commission at 17, went soon after to Morocco. Even then Spain was fighting its interminable war with the Riffs. Adolescent Lieutenant Franco was wounded once, was decorated several times for bravery...
...Francisco Franco, The Times and The Man, by Joaquín Arrar...