Word: loyalist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State Department said it had asked in European capitals about reports that Germany had fortified Spain's Canary Islands which lie some 60 miles west of Africa on the air route from Europe to Brazil. Journalist Lorenzo Sosa and other Spanish Loyalist refugees from the Islands turned up with eyewitness accounts. Some told of being put to work on an air base at Las Palmas, said German cruisers had surveyed island harbors...
...work in the ground and in two plants where quicksilver is distilled from cinnabar ore. They toil seven days a week (with pay for overtime), get around $4 a day. live in hovels, pay 20? a pack for cigarets at a company store. Recently they raised a fund for Loyalist Spain, then split over disposition of the money. One group called in C. I. O. organizers, who last week called them out on strike for union recognition. Brother Theodore and associates declined to recognize or dicker with their union, reported to Brother Herbert that all was peaceful. Eighty-five pickets...
PERPIGNAN, France-Spanish Frontier--The Loyalist Defense Ministry announced tonight at Barcelona that a train bearing 320 American "volunteers," demobilized from the Loyalist army, had been bombed twice by Insurgent planes between Pulgeerda and the French border...
There were no casualties among the Americans, veterans of the International Brigade who served in the Loyalist ranks for 23 months according to the Barcelona announcement...
...This time Manhattanites, finally aware of who she was, thronged the theatre, stamped and yelled, gaped at castanet playing that would have made Gene Krupa sit up, footwork (zapateado) that would have made Bill Robinson's eyes pop. Though Dancer Argentinita is known to be an ardent Spanish Loyalist, Manhattan's Spaniards called an armistice for an evening. Both Leftists and Rightists turned out to give her a big hand...