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...soon as returns reached the Cortes, Conservative deputies were up in their seats yelling for power. Oppositionists gathered under the spokesmanship of a fiery Sevillian, Martinez Barrios. Premier Azana, fighting not only for the Socialist coalition but for the Republic, called on each of the opposition leaders personally to beg for a truce. In his peppery, nasal Andalusian voice Senor Barrios snapped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Guillotine | 5/29/1933 | See Source »

...Folia's Nights in the Gardens of Spain by Conductor Ernesto Halffter, Pianist Manuel Navarro and the Orquesta Betica de Camara (Columbia, $4.50)?A Sevillian orchestra, led by a pupil of Composer de Falla, gives soft, authentic color to the three lovely nocturnes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: June Records | 6/8/1931 | See Source »

...Sevillian choir boys dance prettily in the Cathedral on the festivals of Corpus Christi and the Immaculate Conception. In Chinese temples priests play on exotic little instruments. Hebrew cantors intone wailing dirges in their synagogs. But, thought perturbed members of the Maplewood Methodist Episcopal Church in Maiden, Mass., who ever heard of whistling in church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: 105 Whistles | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

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