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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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" of 1812 (with the considerable help of the Duke of Wellington's British Army) had cleared Napoleon's Army out and were again in full control of the country...
Generalissimo Franco soon responded to the French hints of possible friendship. The French have long dreaded the idea of having the Italian legionnaires fighting with the Rebels at the French frontier. No less pleasing has been the thought that the Rebels' friends have been constructing fortifications on the French-Spanish frontier. Last week the Generalissimo informed France that Italian troops would not be allowed to operate in the frontier sector, and at the same time withdrew an Italian militia brigade from the Catalonian shambles. He also invited a French military mission to come and see for itself that...
...Banister is seeking $1 for each page of the lifted story in every copy of the book sold, or about $60,000, but will probably get much less. Soon after More Merry-Go-Round appeared, its publishers failed, and the two authors never got any of the $12,000 they claim were due them. Counsel fees have put them out an additional $5,000 at least...
...mistress-though he was grateful enough that the ogling coal dealer neglected to leave a bill. To keep her at home he did the marketing himself, dressed in the cap, espadrilles and blue jeans of a workman, plus a famous white-polka-dotted red shirt that cost him less than two francs. The mystic poet, Max Jacob, helped Picasso, who steadfastly refused to do any "commercial" work. A terrific and efficient worker, to avoid interruptions Picasso soon took to painting all night, a habit which may have had something to do with the blueness of the Blue Period...
...strong box"-a large wallet kept in an inner pocket and fastened with a safety pin. He also had liver and stomach trouble that has persisted ever since. Moving into i studio apartment on the Boulevard de Clichy with at last some actual comfort, he worked furiously, with less gaiety, with a beginning of the bitter, abstracted air which characterized him later. In 1912 he moved to Montparnasse. In 1914, saddened by the departure of most of his riends for the War, he left Paris to live in the suburb of Montrouge...