Word: franciscos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Also in Perpignan popped up Jose Maria Sert, Spain's best known modern mural painter. As Generalissimo Francisco Franco's art representative, he wanted to check over the paintings which may soon -under the Loyalists' own terms-become Rebel Spain's property. Señor Sert declared himself satisfied that the paintings had been taken good care of, that they were all intact. On their nation's art Rebel and Loyalist had agreed...
France suddenly woke up last week to the fact that hereafter, by virtue of Generalissimo Francisco Franco's conquest of Catalonia (see p. 17), she would have only one neighbor-Rebel Spain-to her south instead of the two warring neighbors she has had for the last two and a half years. Moreover, the realization grew that this new Spanish neighbor, puppet of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, might not prove to be the friendly one that France has known for more than 100 years...
...during the Spanish War France has been scarcely on speaking terms with Generalissimo Francisco Franco's Government. Unlike Britain, she has sent no friendly, trade mission to Burgos. Last week, however, France thought the time had come to begin a series of diplomatic flirtations if not an actual marriage. Hawk-beaked Rightist Senator Léon Bérard of the Basses-Pyrenees Department entrained for Burgos from Paris. His trip, he and the French Foreign Office said, was unofficial, but there was no doubt that he had been sent by Premier Edouard Daladier's Government to sound...
...months ago Critic Alfred Frankenstein of the San Francisco Chronicle received a letter from a small boy in Australia named Peter Buxton. Peter wanted to know the answers to some questions about "Mr. Yehudi" (Menuhin). Critic Frankenstein was so taken with Peter's knowledgeable prattle that he appointed him the Chronicle's Critic-Down-Under. Last week Critic Buxton's last year's concert-hall impressions were made public under the heading Reasume...
...conservative Association of American Railroads knows that thousands of U. S. citizens from inland towns and villages will visit the San Francisco and New York World's Fairs this spring and summer, is fully aware of the passenger competition it will get from the cheaper bus lines, the convenient private automobiles, the more expensive airlines...