Word: spain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris it was learned that the Franco Government sought a reconstruction loan of $100,000,000 from a group of bankers (headed by Mendelssohn & Co. of Amsterdam) largely dominated by Jewish influences. The bankers' answer was to propose an economic survey of Spain. They suggested it be made by onetime Premier Paul van Zeeland of Belgium. Paris financiers added other conditions: that Spain renounce partnership with Germany and Italy, declare neutrality in any forthcoming...
...Spanish gold held in France since the start of the war caused trouble between Spain and France. Jose Felix Lequerica, Spanish Ambassador to France, demanded that France return the gold according to an agreement reached between French Senator Leon Berard and Spanish Foreign Minister Count Francisco de Jordana before French recognition of the Franco Government. French Premier Daladier demanded that Spain first take back all of the 400,000 Spanish refugees on French soil who want to go back, and pay for the support of the rest. Upshot was that Senor Lequerica threatened to return to Burgos for good. Premier...
Post readers found the articles sensational; Post editors were proud of their scoop. General Krivitsky told how Stalin had tried to set up a puppet state in Spain, how he had shot his generals on framed evidence furnished by the German Gestapo, how his every political move was directed toward making a deal with Hitler. Although a few informed critics questioned some of General Krivitsky's facts and many open-minded persons questioned his disinterest, no one questioned his identity until last fortnight, when the editors of the Communist New Masses popped out from behind the curtains and. leveling...
Since 1920, with a nudge or two from its bankers, J. P. Morgan & Co., and the friendly encouragement of well-wishers like American Telephone & Telegraph Co. and ex-King Alfonso of Spain, International Telephone & Telegraph Co. has installed nearly 1,000,000 telephones in ten countries. Assets on its books tot up to $537,000,000 and once in 1929 its common stock sold for $149.25 a share, 49 times earnings. Last week it sold for $6.75 a share, six times 1938 earnings, and in his annual report I. T. & T.'s amiable President Sosthenes Behn described the hardships...
...about one-eighth of its assets, invested in Spain. In 1935 they earned a tidy $2,600,000. But for the last two years President Behn has had to leave Spain out of his income account. Last week, he laconically reported: "The extent of damage to the properties has not yet been ascertained, but reports received indicate that a high percentage of the 346,000 telephones in service at the beginning of the civil war still remain in service...