Word: republica
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...Cespedes. perspiring in formal morning clothes, took this brief oath: "I swear faithfully to fulfill the duties of President of the Republic and enforce the Constitution and the laws!" Going inside from the garden terrace he signed the oath, exclaiming as he laid down his pen, "Viva la Republica Libre...
Because he wound up a harangue to troops last week with the cry "Viva Espana!" instead of "Viva la Republica!" the Chief of Staff of the Spanish Army, General Don Manuel Goded, was ousted from his command by Premier Azana...
...artillery and infantry garrison has rebelled," she whispered excitedly. "Agitators are running through the streets shouting 'Viva la Republica!' Hundreds of citizens have fled to the mountains. The rebels have killed two civil guards and one carabinier in street fights. They have mounted cannon inside the old Roman walls. Tomorrow they march against Huesca. They say that Major Franco is leading the rebels, but nobody has seen him. They...
...little village of Ayerbe, about half way between the two towns, the advancing rebels ran smack into a Federal force. A battery of artillery held the road, their six guns leveled. Rebel scouts ran forward, shouting Viva la Republica, believing these troops were friendly too. An officer's arm dropped. A roaring point-blank artillery broadside tore great holes in the screaming, terrified column. Wrote an eyewitness reporter...
...civilian support for the army of his chief-of-staff, General Gonzalo Escobar, and second with the forlorn project of despatching to President Herbert Hoover a request that the ten most northerly states of Mexico be recognized as having seceded from the Mexican Union, and as constituting the Republica Mexicana de Obregon...