Word: valencias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Strait and began swimming. Later a motorboat picked him up, still swimming toward Africa. In Seville mobs burned monarchists' homes, freed Communists and Syndicalists from jail, mobbed royalist newspaper offices. As prisoners left the jail, others- participants in the revolt-went in. Republican demonstrations were staged in Cordoba, Valencia, Santander, Barcelona. In Madrid the conservative papers A. B. C., Informaciones, El Debate and Nacion were suspended. Casualties of the revolt: 1,000 arrested, 90 wounded, ten killed, including one Nicanor Puerto who committed suicide. The Government promised General Sanjurjo would not be executed "unless the law left no alternative...
...concerts, Jose Iturbi, sportive Spanish pianist, sailed for Europe taking with him first U. S. citizenship papers, a Ford, a power plant for generating electricity and water, an electric refrigerator, a set of bathroom fixtures. The contrivances are for a home Iturbi is building in his native Valencia...
Merrily last week Spain's Presidential Train chuffed from Valencia to Madrid carrying President Alcala Zamora, driven by the Duke of Zaragoza with many a toot! toot...
...show the same change from the preceding century that one sees in the German book-illustrations. Spanish title-pages are still very fine. Many are heraldic, containing the only cut in the book. One of the best of the heraldic title-pages is in 'Aurem Opus', done in Valencia...
Strikes gripped Valencia, Tarragona, Bilbao. In Guillena began the first cowherds' strike in Spanish history. Hundreds of cowherds rode in off the bleak Andalusian ranges, demanding more pay, leaving hundreds of black Spanish cattle bellowing pitifully for water. The Governor of Se ville mobilized a squadron of cavalry and sent them forth with a ringing message that reporters wired round the world: "Soldiers of Spain! Go to Guillena and lead the cows to pasture...