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...this time President Azafia was perhaps personally less radical than President Roosevelt. After long talks with him, cigar-chewing U. S. Ambassador Claude Bowers called Azafia the greatest living Spaniard, compared his ideals with those moderate motives which inspired George Washington and the American Colonists to shake off English Kingship. In Spain the Right knew what to think when Republican Azafia proved unable to suppress political violence and murder even in the streets of Madrid, made the philosophical assertion: "Violence is deeply enshrined in the Spanish people. The time has not yet come for Spaniards to stop shooting one another...
Pigeons killed on the fly by a mysterious ray, a genuine and ingenious new welding process, big round sums of money and a short, myopic Spaniard were the ingredients of a story that drew chuckles last week from metallurgists, welding engineers and connoisseurs of the curious in the annals of invention...
...That busy Spaniard, suffering no permanent hurt from the airplane accident he was in last spring in Trinidad (TIME, April 20), had arrived during the fortnight from a South American tour, had flown to Detroit, then back to Manhattan to open the summer season at the Lewisohn Stadium. Iturbi said he was booked for 47 U. S. concerts during the summer. In the Lewisohn Stadium, where three years ago he managed for the first time to make the U. S. think of him as a conductor, Iturbi appeared in a white flannel suit, dark blue shirt and white tie, played...
...trade claims that home instruments are enjoying an upswing from which the guitar is getting the most benefit. The most respectable member of its family, this soft-toned fretted instrument was admired by many a classical composer, is played privately by Violinist Fritz Kreisler, is the specialty of Spaniard Andres Segovia and interests most U. S. amateurs because it figures in hillbilly music. Guitar sales are now at an alltime U. S. peak, 500,000 a year. In an $8.000,000 business, exclusive of organs and pianos, in which banjos, guitars and mandolins account for $4.000,000 annual sales, peaks...
John Philip Sousa was born in Washington, D. C., Nov. 6, 1854. His father was a Spaniard of Portuguese descent who served in the U. S. Navy. His mother was born in the U. S. of Bavarian parents. Sousa was a most patriotic American. I knew him from the time I was 13 years of age until the day of his death, when he was a guest at my home...