Word: majorca
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franco controls but two, could not possibly be responsible for all the "pirate" attacks in the Mediterranean in recent months. Germany at present is anxious to stay in Britain's good graces. Almost every foreign observer agreed last week that the pirate submarines must be Italian, based at Majorca, Genoa and Sicily...
...suppressed by the Pope because of secular outcries against it-the black-cassocked fathers and their work in California became unpopular and they were ousted. Their work was taken over by brown-cassocked Franciscans under the leadership of 54-year-old Fray Junipero, who had been born in Majorca, missionized in Mexico, learned the tongue of the Fame Indians and taught at the college of San Fernando...
Discovered by U. S. escapists in the late great Depression, the Balearics seemed almost too good to be true. Escapist Elliot Paul found on Iviza, smaller and less-known than Majorca, just the place he was looking for. In a village called Santa Eulalia he spent five years off & on, went back for his last visit in July 1936, few days before civil war cut Iviza off from the world. In The Life and Death of a Spanish Town, Author Paul says hail & farewell to Santa Eulalia with heartfelt emotion, little knowing that Iviza would be on all front pages...
...sure enough, a Government fleet rounded the headland, briefly bombarded the town of Iviza, then landed 4,000 men on Iviza. A few (not many, says Paul) of the leading fascists were shot. Soon the Government army left, to retake Majorca. When the papers told of the Majorca expedition being withdrawn, mentioned Italian bombing planes, people in Iviza knew what was coming. One Sunday noon it came-four planes dropping bombs. Fifty-five (42 of them women and children, says Paul) were killed. In a rage of revenge, Government guards massacred their rebel prisoners. Paul went into Iviza next...
When Artist Cadmus talks about his dependence on the U. S. Navy, he means its 78-year-old veteran Admiral Hugh Rodman. In 1933, already spotted by scouts as a promising etcher with a strong satiric bent, Paul Cadmus returned from two years in Majorca, found commissions hard to get. From the Public Works of Art Project he received an average of $35 a week to stay in his own studio, paint what he liked. What he liked was a group of U. S. sailors having raucous and somewhat indecent fun with their molls on Riverside Drive. He called...