Word: valencias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...since at Moscow the Stalin regime chose last week not to make counter threats which might have given Italy and Germany pause, the dominant factor in Spain's civil war was not to be found this week in Aragon, in Catalonia or in Valencia, but in France. The army, navy and air force of the French Republic are among the most powerful in Europe, but was it certain that French Premier Leon Blum, although he heads a Popular Front Cabinet, wants France to fight on such an issue...
...Manhattan last week Derek D. Dickinson, a tall, lean, pale U. S. citizen of 38, showed his discharge papers from the Leftist Spanish Air Force. He claimed that last fall he went up from Valencia in answer to a radio from Dictator's Son Bruno Mussolini asking that someone good be sent up to duel with him. The rendezvous was at 15,000 feet, eleven miles out to sea from Valencia, and according to Derek D. Dickinson each duelist was escorted by three planes which acted only as observers or seconds at the duel. The weapons: a Spanish-built...
...arts. A plank in any Socialist government's platform, this was especially urgent in a government working for dear life to form an army, educate a public, enlist foreign sympathies. During the first year of siege the Fifth Regiment in Madrid had the duty of packing off to Valencia the art treasures of the capital (TIME, Feb. 1, 1937).* Public statues, including Madrid's favorite, Cybele, the goddess with the civic crown who has long driven a marble chariot opposite the post office, were sealed in sandbag pyramids...
...down these vagaries with official posters exhorting civilians to evacuate Madrid, to bring food to Madrid, to be vaccinated, to stop talking and get down to business. All in all, no less than 4,000,000 posters have been printed in the lithographers' shops of Madrid, Valencia and Barcelona...
...Maurice Ravel, who died early in 1938, was best known to Americans for his composition (1 Rhapsody in Blue, 2 Firefly, 3 By the Waters of Minnetunka, 4 Bolero, 5 Valencia...