Word: valencias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bruno had arrived with 23 brand new Savoia-Marchetti S-79 B's, considered among Italy's fastest and best bombers, on the Island of Majorca (TIME, Oct. 11), caused this Rightist base to be furiously strafed last week by three flights of Leftist bombers from Valencia...
...electric light, drainage ditches were being dug on trench lines and supplies of food and clothing were being rushed into the city. To the east hundreds of workmen were driving spikes and laying rails for two new sections of track to bring Madrid into direct rail connection with Valencia again, for winter was coming on, and in the high altitude of the Spanish plateau there were not more than six or seven weeks of possible fighting weather left before operations must cease for the long winter's siege. Since the Rightists cut the direct rail route from Valencia just...
...Bruno, 20, reputedly soon got his hand in bombing Valencia, and in Rome friends of his mother said she had told them: "If I had not been at our country place I would have stopped Bruno from going. He telephoned through to say he was leaving for Spain at dawn and nothing I could...
Only foreign state to approve U. S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Chicago speech so highly as to have it reprinted in pamphlet form and distributed on all fighting fronts to encourage the troops last week was the Valencia Government of Leftist Spain. In Madrid, where newspapers catering to the besieged populace usually carry little foreign news, Mr. Roosevelt was hailed in whole pages of heartfelt Spanish eulogy for having brought Washington out on the side of Valencia. Cried Madrid's Informaciones: "There is not a paragraph in - President Roosevelt's speech which cannot be fully subscribed...
...Valencia last week had excitement of a different sort. For the first time in many months, the Spanish Cortes (parliament) met, for the first time in history it did not sit in the traditional semicircle, divided physically as well as spiritually into Left. Centre and Right, but in an ordinary auditorium set up on the trading floor of Valencia's silk exchange, the Lonja de la Seda...