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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Speaker Martinez Barrio told the deputies that they were witnessing a historic meeting, that they were "writing a page of honor for the future Spanish fatherland." Historically minded Loyalists took heart by remembering that another Cortes had met in Cadiz in March 1812, in even more desperate circumstances. At that time Napoleon had invaded Spain and had set his brother Joseph on the throne at Madrid, "Loyalist" Spain had been reduced to only a small area north of Cadiz and isolated cities, far less than the approximately 50,000 square miles the Government still holds. Yet by 1814 the "Loyalists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Fourth Capital | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

Last week in St. Moritz he had a slight heart attack, apologetically told his doctor: "There's nothing much the matter with me." The doctor agreed and left. Before he reached the gate Sir Henri's wife came running after him, crying: "Doctor, Doctor, come back!" This time Sir Henri Deterding was really dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PETROLEUM: i Royal Dutch Knight | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...morning in March 1932, a swindler named Ivar Kreuger lay on his bed in a Paris apartment, put a bullet through his heart. Kreuger & Toll's subsequent collapse sapped confidence in financial wizardry, helped to precipitate Roosevelt reforms. Last week Kreuger & Toll's U.S. ,estate paid its final dividend to claim-holders, bringing its total payments to $2,743,582. With payments by the Swedish estate, the burnt-up Match King's burnt-up creditors have so far collected a scant $22.000,000 out of original claims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Echoes from the Past | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

Died. William Butler Yeats, 73, great Irish poet; of heart disease; in Roquebrune, France. A symbolist poet known to few in his youth, a leader of the Irish literary renaissance and a founder of the Abbey Theatre in his early maturity, an Irish nationalist in his middle years, Yeats also became a Nobel prizewinner (1923), a Free State Senator, and was widely accepted, in his old age, as a world figure whose poetry and prose could be measured with the greatest produced in his time. His art meanwhile changed from the youthful rhythms of The Lake Isle of Innisfree, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 6, 1939 | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

...heart of Baltimore's tenderloin is a flashy basement honkytonk called the Oasis. Passers-by are invited to "walk down one flight and save nothing," enter "the worst night club in America," witness "the lousiest shows in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: World's Worst | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

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