Word: valencia
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...Manhattan dapper Mr. Howard dashed off cable questionnaires to Spanish Premier Largo Caballero who removed his Cabinet from Madrid to Valencia on the seacoast some months ago (TIME, Nov. 16), and to President Francisco Franco whose Spanish Government, officially recognized by Italy and Germany (TIME, Nov. 30), was established at Burgos on the sixth day of a civil war which this week was seven months...
...Democracy? Impressions in Spain that blue-overall-wearing Premier Largo Caballero is in doubt what his Government stands for and is constantly advised by Soviet Ambassador to Spain Marcel Rosenberg, who in turn spends much time consulting his superiors in the Soviet Union, were strengthened this week by Red Valencia's reaction to Roy Howard...
...sort was there around Madrid, that correspondents began to hint that the Whites were mainly trying during the bitter winter weather to keep as many Militia in the north as possible while in Spain's sunny south the Generalissimo was rumored quietly preparing a White offensive against Valencia, the seaport to which the Madrid Cabinet long since fled (TIME, Nov. 16). Spunky General José Miaja, defender of Spain's erstwhile Capital, was holding out ably last week, issuing such proclamations as "The people of Madrid will eat their shoes before they surrender!" Red beans were what Madrid...
When Californians suffer a fruit-killing frost, as last week, Floridians quietly gloat. When Floridians suffer a tree-destroying hurricane, as a year ago last autumn, Californians gloat. But until this winter growers of California navel oranges and growers of Florida Valencia oranges have discreetly avoided talking down the other fellows' fruit in northern cities where the chief customers of both live. The California Fruit Growers Exchange broke this discreet merchandising convention this winter by advertising flatly in newspapers and magazines, on streetcar cards and billboards: "Sunkist navel oranges are 22% richer in vitamin C [anti-scurvy, anti-colds...
...shipment to the coast, packed in a crate that cost the Leftist Government 7,000 pesetas. ¶ Bombed and destroyed by Rebel planes was the Duke of Alba's gigantic Liria Palace, but it had already been seized as a museum, its paintings shipped to the coast. In Valencia last week paintings of the Duke of Alba, which the general public has never had a chance to see, were put on public exhibition...