Word: spain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When 1,500,000 U. S. boys came back from France in 1919, the bands played Over There, K-K-K-Katy, The Star-Spangled Banner, and crowds lionized them. When 322 U. S. boys and a girl came back from Spain last week, a small crowd did the lionizing, and the song was again The Star-Spangled Banner...
Former King Alfonso XIII of Spain last week had the curious but pleasant sensation of becoming a citizen of his native country. He was made so by a decree of Generalissimo Francisco Franco himself. To the 52-year-old Alfonso, now living in Italy, were restored (so far as Insurgent Spain could do so) the rights he lost after he fled the country in 1931 and was "tried" in absentia before the Republic's Parliament. The Republic found him guilty of high treason, confiscated his properties, ordered his immediate arrest should he ever be caught in Spain again...
Meanwhile Don Alfonso, last of Spain's Bourbon monarchs, having prudently invested tens of millions of pesetas in foreign bonds and stocks while he sat upon Spain's throne, did not go hungry in exile. Citizen Bourbon will regain little now save two homes, one on the fashionable beach at San Sebastian, another at Santander (both in Rightist Spain). Should the Rebels take Madrid he would again become the owner of seven partly damaged business buildings there, upping his total recovery of property to about $3,500,000. The crown properties (castles, palaces, etc.) are still considered State...
...missing $18,000,000 in McKesson & Robbins assets. That Coster's crude drug department and its agencies had masked bootlegging operations during prohibition was generally agreed; that it had later turned from alcohol to bootlegging munitions was indicated by reports 1) that rifles had been received in Spain in cases labeled milk of magnesia; 2) that a McKesson & Robbins official had asked a Bridgeport bank to collect $30,000,000 owed the company for an arms shipment. It remained uncertain whether the missing money had been stolen or whether it had never existed-possibly fictitious profits had been built...
Meanwhile, Loyalist Spain made ready for the attack, possibly the biggest of the war. Two more classes, men of 37 and 38, were called to the colors by the Catalonian Ministry of Defense. All army leaves were canceled...