Word: franco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Polite General Franco...
TIME quotes Mrs. Edithe Dahl (Jan. 17) as claiming to have received a letter from General Franco in which he used the words, "Your obedient servant kisses your foot." Then TIME adds: "To General Franco, who is a married man, this may have proved embarrassing." Error. It is an ancient and courtly Spanish custom to terminate a formal letter to a lady thus...
...styled "Rome-Berlin Axis," has brought Rumania under its influence. Therefore Premier Mussolini had not considered it necessary to go personally to Budapest, and Count Ciano quickly finished off the main Fascist business in hand, got official diplomatic recognition by Austria and Hungary of the regime of General Francisco Franco as the "legitimate" Government of Spain...
...Galerie Billiet last fortnight, called L'Art Cruel. The usual fate of such intentions has seldom been illustrated better than in the shallow frissons and Grand Guignol giggles with which swank Parisians responded to it. Contributors of the 48 paintings included Picasso, with his nightmarish Dreams & Lies of Franco (TIME, Dec. 27); Salvador Dali, with The Specter of Sex Appeal, in which a nai've little boy regards an enormous figure, half-flesh, half-bone, straddling an idyllic background; Andre Masson, with Dilettantes of Corpses, showing gowned ecclesiastics leaving a corpsy battlefield with expressions of pious approval; Frans...
...General Franco, who is a married man, this may have proved embarrassing. At any rate while Edith Dahl has worked up in a few weeks from a Riviera night club to one in Paris, Whitey has remained in custody at Salamanca. Last week the General's headquarters announced that Airman Dahl's reprieve was not a pardon, as had been thought, carries with it an "automatic sentence to life imprisonment...