Word: franco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Skunk. She loved him at sight. He told her, cautiously, that she was too good for him. He divulged his past: he had gone to Spain after a boyhood near Bridgeport, Conn., had married, fathered four children, deserted his wife, fought for Franco, and ended up in Gibraltar as a police stool pigeon. He had spent five months in jail (for theft) after landing back in the U.S. in 1946. He finally admitted that he preyed on women...
Then he died and there were squabbles over where to bury him-in Argentina, said his anti-Franco friends; in Spain, said the Spanish embassy. The Franco government won, and De Falla's sister Maria hustled back to Spain with a sackful of his belongings. Since then, she has lived in seclusion with her surviving brother German in the sleepy Andalusian village of San Fernando, jealously guarding a shabby bag which contains La Atlantida-comp-leted down to the last note...
...second Spanish Republic (1931-36); after long illness; in Buenos Aires. A Monarchist turned Republican, Alcala Zamora became President after a bloodless revolution in 1931, was himself kicked out of office by leftists three months before the outbreak of civil war in 1936, was finally exiled by Franco...
...prevailing diplomatic manners, Franco's Spain was still not considered nice enough to sit down to dinner with the neighbors. But there seemed to be nothing against giving her enough money to enjoy a meal in her own dining hall. Last week, Manhattan's Chase National Bank, without objection from the U.S. State Department, gave Spain its first hearty handout from the U.S. since war's end: a $25 million short-term loan, for the purchase of fertilizers and electrical equipment. The loan was a gilt-edged risk, backed by Spanish gold reserves deposited in London, which...
While Soapy Williams watched from the sidelines (his law partner, Hicks Griffiths, was named to replace Franco), Scholle pulled the strings. All Democratic candidates for the spring elections were hand-picked by the C.I.O. By moving smartly, new Boss Scholle had made the Democratic Party in Michigan a political arm of the C.I.O...