Word: toledo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whether or not surrender was the best means of salvation, it was the better part of valor. In the south, through Córdoba and Toledo, the Franco main armies were reported advancing, meeting with no resistance. At Valencia it was reported that Loyalist troops had been ordered to withdraw without risking further bloodshed. All that seemed to remain was Franco's own triumphal entry into Madrid and the mopping up of the south, a procedure that in Catelonia required only a few weeks following the collapse of Barcelona...
Soldier. Born in 1892 at El Ferrol, in Galicia, the son of a naval officer, Francisco Franco was given routine military education. He entered the military school at the Alcázar, Toledo, at 14, was graduated with a commission at 17, went soon after to Morocco. Even then Spain was fighting its interminable war with the Riffs. Adolescent Lieutenant Franco was wounded once, was decorated several times for bravery...
...faced Millionaire Church sold bicycles in Toledo, automobiles in Los Angeles, made enough to buy the finest breeding stable in California and to be one of Culbert Olson's chief backers. Last week Odell screamed that during the election campaign Church asked him for $5,000 on the promise that an attack on Pacific States would be left out of a recorded Olson speech. Custodian Church denied asking for the $5,000, but admitted receiving $2,500, admitted too that mention of Pacific States had been removed from the phonograph record. Governor Olson snapped that he, for one, knew...
LESTER D. ALEXANDER Toledo, Ohio...
LAWRENCE W. HEINLE Toledo, Ohio...