Word: mallorcans
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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Meanwhile the secretary of Mallorca's Tourist Agency, Judge Francisco Vidal, had been appointed to try the case. He knew well his duty to Mallorcan prejudice, by which U. S. tourists are rated "too fresh," U. S. women "prostitutes" because they drink and wear beach pajamas in public. He knew what U. S. tourists were threatening, knew also his duty to the Spanish Guardia Civil. "There must be a trial, even if it means an American boycott of Mallorca," cried Judge Vidal, "and I cannot grant bail...
...prisoner. Promptly Prisoner Rutherford Fullerton, grandnephew of U. S. President Rutherford B. Hayes and wealthy retired businessman of Columbus, Ohio, emerged from jail with Mrs. Lockwood whose nervous breakdown was declared "narrowly averted." They were met by a cheering crowd, composed partly of U. S. tourists and partly of Mallorcan natives...
Meanwhile the Mallorcan authorities decided that, having collected 20,000 pesetas bail from two prisoners, they might as well release the other three, Edmund Blodgett, Roderick Mead and Mrs. Lockwood's husband Clinton. Judge Vidal collected the five passports, ordered the bailed-out Americans to report daily to him, lest they leave Mallorca. In Madrid diplomatic compliments were exchanged between Ambassador Bowers and Premier Azana who promised ''expeditious conclusion" of the trial. It was expected to end in sentences of imprisonment so short that the five U. S. citizens can be declared to have served their time...