Word: francos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Britain and France had reached a temporary agreement for the exchange of that metal in the course of trade. Though Secretary Morgenthau called this pact, secretly negotiated by transatlantic telephone, a "new type of gold standard," it was really nothing more than a technical extension of the U. S.-Franco-British agreement of last month to use their respective stabilization funds to steady the dollar, the pound and the franc (TIME...
Sloe-eyed, soft-spoken Generalissimo Francisco Franco of the White Armies, realizing the difficulty of moving on Madrid through the Guadarrama Mountains of the North, transferred his headquarters within easier distance of the main line from Toledo to Madrid. Government troops, disorganized and poorly led, made brave counter-attacks that got nowhere, abandoned well-constructed trenches for villages impossible to hold, were shot down in their tracks while retreating, and occasionally deserted in groups...
...will start their seasons, under such proven leaders as Polish Artur Rodzinski, British Eugene Goossens and square old Frederick Stock, born a German but for many a year a proud Chicago institution. St. Louis' hopes are high again for a series of concerts under Vladimir Golschmann, the sleek Franco-Russian who has built himself a strong Missouri following. The Los Angeles Philharmonic was driving for money last week and awaiting the return of towering Otto Klemperer. San Francisco stages its opera season first, but by midwinter the rejuvenated symphony will be playing again under the beneficent command of Pierre...
...then flew over Madrid and on to Burgos, the North headquarters of the Whites. With the Capital almost encircled, it was time for White "Provisional President" General Miguel Cabanellas to hand over his trappings of authority to the prospective White Dictator. Drawing a sword and flourishing it over Generalissimo Franco as though knighting him, the snowy-bearded "Provisional President" exclaimed: "General Franco, in the name of the Lord, and by the will of the Spanish People, I hand over to you full power over The Spanish State...
After this bit of White pageantry, Spain's civil chaos remained in status quo, except that White Franco established his so-called Government as a Triumvirate, the two lesser prongs of this political trident being White North General Emilio Mola and White South General Queipo de Llano. "I promise cordial relations with every nation except Soviet Russia," cried White Franco, "and bread and heat for every Spanish home this winter...