Word: spanishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WASHINGTON--The problem of American recognition of the Spanish Insurgent government and the possibility of Congressional approval of an administration-opposed measure to give the people sole power to declare war were thrust into the forefront of foreign policy and national defense today...
...developments gave prominence to the Spanish question. First, a conference between Claude G. Bowers, U. S. Ambassador to Loyalist Spain, and Undersecretary of State Summer Welles, and secondly, doubtful but persistent reports that Franco's regime considers asking the return of Puerto Rice, former Spanish possession now held by the United States...
...French movies at the Geographical Institute. Nowhere is there a permanent exhibit of French photographs, maps, sketches, statues, or paintings; nor is there any logical center for French extra-curricular lectures, or for the now moribund French Club. These basic defects--decentralization and inadequacy--are also found in the Spanish and Italian Departments, and both could be corrected by a Center for Romance Civilization...
Whatever peace might mean to war-weary Spain, to the outside world the approaching end of the Spanish War was merely the signal for the beginning of a diplomatic tug of war between the European democracies and dictatorships. Germany and Italy believe they will exert more influence because they helped Rebel Spain win the war with men and munitions. France and Britain hope to get the new Spain into their camp by lending her money...
...railbirds had underestimated a plain brown filly, Congressman Richard Kleberg's Ciencia (Spanish for Science, her dam's name), who was bred on the vast open spaces of his family's famed King Ranch,** Coming into the stretch, Ciencia, who had been trailing like a dogie up to the half-mile pole, suddenly rushed up,*** swept past the leaders, Porter's Mite and Bessie Franzheim's Xalapa Clown. When the dust had settled, 50,000 gasping spectators realized that a filly had won the Santa Anita Derby for the first time...