Word: segovia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...claims that home instruments are enjoying an upswing from which the guitar is getting the most benefit. The most respectable member of its family, this soft-toned fretted instrument was admired by many a classical composer, is played privately by Violinist Fritz Kreisler, is the specialty of Spaniard Andres Segovia and interests most U. S. amateurs because it figures in hillbilly music. Guitar sales are now at an alltime U. S. peak, 500,000 a year. In an $8.000,000 business, exclusive of organs and pianos, in which banjos, guitars and mandolins account for $4.000,000 annual sales, peaks were...
...laid hands on him. U. S. newspapers uniformly called him "bandit." But what Sandino wanted, and what he finally got in January 1933, was the withdrawal of all U. S. Marines from Nicaragua. When they left, he quit fighting and took over a large part of the Department of Segovia for his men. His old friend Sacasa, elected President, promised him $1,000 a month to get his farms and mines started. Sandino, a great hater, still had one open enemy, General Moncada. And Moncada's nephew is General Anastacio Somoza. commander of 2,500 Guardia Nacional. Sandino...
...sent to nearby towns were caught and jailed. At midnight he summoned General Gonzales y Gonzales, delivered his command to him. Then he collected nine loyal lieutenants including his son, piled them into two automobiles, fled toward the Portuguese frontier. At daybreak in Huelva a sleepy police mannamed Joaquin Segovia was stopped by two cars, asked the way to Portugal. Officer Segovia raised his rifle. Without more ado General Sanjurjo hopped out of the first car, shook the policeman by the hand. "I congratulate you," said he. "With only a rifle you forced us to surrender." While General Sanjurjo...
...Hoover, a seasoned christener, had a new experience last week at busy Newport News, Va. when she sponsored twin ships within an hour. The ships, S. S. Talamanca and S. S. Segovia, were baptized with water from the southern seas they will sail. United Fruit Co., the owners, will build four more fine fruit boats, operate all six under the U. S. flag, be paid for carrying the U. S. mails...
...About 25 mi. from small Eldorado, Ohio. †Writer (books, magazine articles), poet (Lace Maker of Segovia), authority on Spanish and Spanish-American affairs, son of California's late great Collis Potter Huntington. His wife is Sculptress Anna Vaughan Hyatt Huntington (small bronzes, large Joans-of-Arc in half a dozen cities, flagpoles in Manhattan). *For his indefatigable daily despatches to the Times from Little America dramatizing the exploits of the Byrd Expedition, Correspondent Russell Owen received the 1930 Pulitzer Prize in Journalism...