Word: franco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...across the Atlantic to South America has aroused considerable commotion in the Spanish court. But whether or not he goes, the gesture is significant of Spain's intention to draw closer to the countries of Latin America. Moreover, the enthusiastic reception accorded by his fellow Latins to Commandant Franco in his recent flight illustrates a reciprocal attitude across the South Atlantic...
Tooted at by every passing steamer, there stands at No. 17 Battery Place, Manhattan, the Washington-Lafayette Institute, an organization founded recently by one Charles E. Bedaux to promote Franco-U. S. accord...
...everyone knows, the Anglo-French agreement was contingent in any case upon the still unconcluded Franco-U. S. debt settlement. If France should agree to pay the U. S. proportionably more, Britain was to have pari pasau treatment. However the French fiscal breakdown has damped British hopes of ever receiving even the minimum agreed upon by Caillaux...
...Netherlands, founded in the Seventh Century by a Briton, Saint Willibrord. Its modern strength dates from 1870, when there acceded to it many Roman Catholic bishops who could not agree to the doctrine of papal infallibility promulgated and accepted by the Vatican Council just interrupted by the Franco-Prussian War. Old Catholics insist on the peerage of the bishops, and further object to the stringently monarchial system of the Roman Catholic Church...
While performing, Miss Garden possibly thought of poor Franco Alfano, composer of the piece, fumbling about his quarters in Turin, Italy; knew he was in heart-sick misery, was going blind; immediately after the performance cabled him in English and in Italian: Resurrection a great success. Congratulations and Happy New Year...