Word: pardoe
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...Strikes Are a Crime." On Sunday, Pamplona was calm and its coffeehouses and movies were open for business. As the new week began, Francisco Franco emerged from his closely guarded El Pardo palace on the outskirts of Madrid and for the first time made a public reference to the unrest: "Strikes are a crime . . . This is the law of jungles and primitive societies." He promised loans to farmers to increase production and lower food prices...
...times have been changing in the misty capital. Spanish custom has been modified by the influence of the amiable French and the brisk North Americans. Now Colombian Essayist Camilo Pardo Umana has suggested a revised Code of Mourning...
...Francisco Franco, became the Marquesa de Villaverde in one of the flossiest weddings that Spain had seen in years. Wearing a Balenciaga faille gown, with a veil sweeping down from a diamond and pearl diadem, the willowy brunette bride marched up the aisle of the Royal Chapel, of El Pardo Palace to face Enrique Cardinal Pla y Deniel, Roman Catholic Primate of Spain. Standing beside the Marqués, Cristobal Martinez Bordiu Ortega y Bascaran, 28, who wore the red-and-cream uniform of the Order of "the Holy Sepulchre, Carmen said in a clear, ringing voice, "Si yo quiero...
Congressmen Murphy set the week's high mark in sightseeing-he saw the Falange headquarters and General Francisco Franco. Nattily togged out in a grey nylon shirt and grey suit, Murphy arrived at the guarded gate of El Pardo in a yellow government car, and was welcomed by the Caudillo in a blue civilian suit...
...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...