Word: spanishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sound of guns, profited enormously from high prices and increased production of grain, olive oil, beet sugar. Shipping companies made killings. But by strengthening the industrial and financial power of the Basques and the Catalans, who were separatist in their politics, this war prosperity helped to undermine the monarchy. Spanish laborers drifted over the Pyrenees to France to work for war-time wages and sent money home. Yet with ownership of land and capital heavily concentrated in a few hands, peasants and stay-at-home workers failed to share in war profits...
...available pigs on the coast of Spain and selling them to the Entente powers for a fantastic profit. Shortly his smuggling fleet had become the Compania Transmediterranea. This company supplied food to the Entente nations and to German submarines with cool impartiality. By 1916 March had cornered the Spanish oil and petrol business. He sold shoes to the French army, traded coal and munitions to both sides, delivered American wheat in his ships, and built up a spy service that was available to all comers. Some of his profits went into Majorcan real estate, some into the National Sugar Trust...
...saddened by the death of a brilliant son, Publisher William Dargie of the Oakland Tribune died. Publisher Dargie had married a beautiful, improvident Spanish woman named Herminia Peralta, whose great-grandfather had once owned, by land grant from the Spanish Crown, nearly all the territory now covered by the cities of Oakland and Berkeley. To his widow Publisher Dargie left a half-interest in the Tribune, with the privilege of raising money to buy the other half at a court sale to settle his cash bequests. Needing cash herself, Widow Dargie got it from a friend of her husband, Congressman...
...Anonymous letters reached the U. S. Department of Labor urging his expulsion. Joe Knowland went to Washington. In 1927, and again in 1928, Captain Martin left the U. S. When he returned he had an appointment as vice-consul for San Leandro (a suburb of Oakland). He painted the Spanish coat-of-arms on the side of Mrs. Dargie's automobile, stuck a Spanish flag in the radiator...
When Tourist Joseph Patrick Kennedy Jr., 23-year-old son of the U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, went for a swim at San Sebástian beach in Franco's Spain, he was tapped by a Spanish cop, who quoted Spain's antiquated new beach laws (TIME, Aug. 7), made him don a top to his bathing suit...