Word: madrid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...park of the Pardo Palace, outside Madrid, where Madrilenos like to spend sunny Sundays, tough olive trees wilted in the drought. In the palace, walled in and surrounded by army barracks, pudgy Dictator Francisco Franco worked all week on the 16-billion peseta ($1,460,000,000 at the official rate) budget for 1949. About one-third of it would go to the army...
...TIME'S Paris Bureau Chief André Laguerre, who was visiting Spain last week, a Madrid policeman said: "Things are bad and getting worse. We're getting into an inflationary situation. I have a wife and child, and my pay is 14 pesetas [about 50? on the free market] a day. I can't manage much longer. I hope to go to France. I hate to leave Spain, but I'll go anywhere I can make a living...
...morning, promptly at 5:30, a burst of gunfire rattles the Colonia Juarez section of Mexico City. Old Don Carlos Rincon Gallardo y Romero de Torreros, Grandee of Spain, Marquis of Guadalupe, Duke of Regla, holder of 15 knighthoods, member of the Royal Corps of Gentlemen of Nobility of Madrid, last commander of President Porfirio Diaz' rurales,* is still waging symbolical battle against the Revolution...
...child of the 17th Duke, of Alba (Spain's top nobleman and ex-Ambassador to Britain) whose wedding last October cost $300,000' and Don Luis Martinez de Irujo y Artazoz 27, blueblooded onetime able seaman in Franco's navy: their first child, a son; in Madrid...
INTO MEXICO CITY'S swank Reforma Hotel checked Panama's chastened ex-President Arnulfo Arias Madrid. Dr. Arias, who had been briefly in Colombia, Costa Rica and Guatemala since his drubbing at the hands of the electoral jury in Panama's presidential elections (TIME, Aug. 16), spoke some nice words about Mexico, then asked permission to settle there and practice medicine...