Word: spain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American Writers' Congress overwhelmingly voted The Big Money best novel of the year. That was on June 6. Three weeks later, Dos Passos' name was mud with the Marxists. His heresy: an article called Farewell to Europe, damning "the intricate and bloody machinery of Kremlin policy" in Spain, thanking heaven that "the Atlantic is a good wide ocean...
Besides getting Glenn expelled from the Party for questioning decisions, Comrade Silverstone steals Glenn's mistress. Glenn's final disillusionment comes in Spain, where he goes to fight with the Loyalists. Again Comrade (now Commissar) Silverstone pops up, this time contrives to get Glenn arrested as a "Trotskyist-Bukharinist wrecker...
...Palace. There, while ranks of Roman aristocracy knelt in homage, and Swiss Guards presented halberds, Rome's Vice-Governor, Prince Francesco Dentice d'Accadia, welcomed the Pope in the name of the city. Within the Palace, respectfully around the Pope, gathered his relatives, the former King of Spain & family, the entire diplomatic corps, high government and army officials, high lay dignitaries...
...Masses) ; by his own hand (hanging); a few days after attending a world convocation of writers (see p. 79); in Manhattan. Leader of social revolutionary movements in post-War Germany, Toller wrote many of his works in prison, was exiled by the Nazis, fought Fascism in Spain, worked in the U. S. to aid Spanish refugees...
...15th volume. Listening as Author Romains reported P. E. N.'s change of front in 60 minutes of rapid-fire French sat writers from lands as far apart as Chile and China, delegates from Australia, Uruguay, Finland, South Africa-Germany's Thomas Mann and Ernst Toller, Spain's Pedro Salinas, China's Lin Yutang, France's André Maurois, the U. S.'s Dorothy Thompson, Henry Seidel Canby, Carl Van Doren, Vincent Sheean. But many of the delegates (German, Italian, Spanish) could claim no country...