Word: spain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...North Spain one man in three is in uniform, in Madrid one man in five; theatres shut down for two minutes at 11 p. m. for an official news broadcast and the national anthem; bullfights are suspended half way through for cheers for Franco, the anthem and the fascist salute-a ceremony that has much in common with humorless Italian and German leader-worship, and more in common with the seventh-inning stretch...
...further suggested that, in Europe, religious minorities like the Baptists try to play off governments against established churches. He blamed "the sinister figure of the priest," rather than King Carol, for Baptist troubles in Rumania. He paid his respects to "the intolerant temper of the Roman Catholic hierarchy in Spain," but cited Generalissimo Franco's pledges for freedom of worship, which he said he believed...
...Bilbo has had a hand in several less lucrative activities abroad-organizing anti-Nazi movements in Germany (pre-Hitler), fighting for Haile Selassie in Abyssinia, for the Spanish Loyalists in Catalonia. On the side he says he found time to design three German villas and his own residence in Spain...
...Painter and The Lady develops, Author Blake (who dedicates it to Ralph Fox, killed fighting for Republican Spain) submerges his characters in the rising tide of the Front Populaire. Stéphane returns to Marseille as an active Communist, and after Lévy-Ruhlmann's murder, is wrongly accused of the crime and convicted. Novel's end comes in June 1936, the month the Front Populaire took office, with Stéphane's execution a dark symbol foreshadowing the political schisms that are to follow...
...Since 1919 he has worked in Wall Street, managed private banks in London and Paris, been in the grain trade in Antwerp, written for financial magazines, ghost-written two books on economics. In all, he has made and lost three fortunes. His last flyer was olive groves in Spain...