Word: juan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Grousing of another sort at Generalissimo Franco was whispered last week by functionaries of the French Foreign Office in Paris. Favored journalists were tipped that under arrest in Saragossa, for having made a speech in which he attacked the Rightist Air Force for too vigorous bombing, was famed General Juan Yague, who led the recent Rightist drive which captured Lerida (TIME, April 11). Information that General Yague is out of circulation came from French secret service agents in Rightist territory, made a rattling good story on the Quai d'Orsay. Hot-tempered, hot-tongued General Yague was reported...
...TIME, April 11 you published a photograph presumably of General Juan Yague. Rebel Commander...
...Juan, Puerto Rico, his first U. S. port of call. Skipper Baker found that he had to register his Oriental So Fong, pay $2,200 duty before continuing on the last leg of his dream-come-true voyage...
Over 80 members of the Harvard R. O. T. C. will sail the Spanish Main on the annual summer practice cruise of the unit this summer. Last summer the marines visited San Juan, Porto Rico, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and Kingston, Jamaica...
...Barcelona, which had already gone on daylight saving time, Leftist Premier Dr. Juan Negrin shoved clocks ahead yet another hour last week, to save still more electricity. Tap water usually ran in the capital for only a few hours each day. Food shops were on short rations, gone altogether the displays of wines, cold meats, biscuits and pastries of a few weeks ago. In Barcelona last week 28 Rightist suspects were executed by Leftist firing squads, and the worst Rightist air raids in six weeks had killed 30, wounded 50 at latest dispatches...