Word: gran
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Square carried floats in honor of Leftist Spain, and every important building in Madrid displayed the red, five-pointed star of Communism with the hammer & sickle or a portrait of Our Sun at its centre. Madrid's mayor renamed part of the famed Gran Via as the "Avenue of the Soviet Union" and from Barcelona Leftist War Minister Indalecio Prieto cabled "Congratulations to the Red Army...
...electricians sometimes cut him off the air but his broadcasts, always boasting great victories and threatening death & destruction to all enemies, have continued. The Rightist southern front having been mouse-quiet for some time, last week General Queipo de Llano, from his headquarters on Seville's Jesus del Gran Poder Street, told the world...
...cause of this new revolution was a peace conference. The still-simmering dispute between Bolivia and Paraguay over the muggy Gran Chaco region has been in the hands of a conference, meeting intermittently in Buenos Aires since the war ended. Unfortunately for President Franco, he allowed the conferees to persuade him to order his troops back from the front-line positions where they have squatted for two years. Army officers, bitterly resentful that Franco was throwing away their bloody-won victory, carried out their coup, then gave him first a chance to change his mind, and finally the boot...
Although the U. S. and its big South American neighbors prevailed upon Bolivia and Paraguay to stop fighting in the Gran Chaco two years ago, the Chaco Peace Conference, meeting intermittently in Buenos Aires ever since, has yet to produce a permanent peace pact. Prime difficulty lies in the fact that the skeleton Bolivian and Paraguayan armies (limited to 5,000 men apiece) have each moved back only a few miles from the positions they held at the time of the armistice, when Paraguay had pushed into 50,000 sq. mi. of the Chaco. This has seemed as natural...
...flareback to the Gran Chaco war was the jailing last week at La Paz under 80,000,000 bolivianos bail ($6,400,000) of British Munitions Suppliers Anthony Ashton and John W. Webster on charges of having bilked Bolivia...