Word: smuggler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Best evidence that on the Rightist side things were not as they should be came when wily Juan March, ex-smuggler, tobacco king and munitions salesman, more recently financial angel to Insurgent Spain, hotfooted it out of San Sebastian and went to earth in Biarritz. Señor March's comings & goings-especially goings-in & out of Spain have long been one of the most reliable barometers of the Spanish political weather. When trouble is brewing, Señor March is generally found in neutral territory...
...indictments were part of an investigation of the supposed smuggling operations of Albert L. Chaperau, self-styled member of the Nicaraguan Consular Service and allegedly an international smuggler...
Graham Greene, good-looking, slender, 33, is a cousin of Robert Louis Stevenson. His first novel, The Man Within (1929), a psychological study of a cowardly smuggler, bore strong resemblances to Treasure Island. His psychological-action novels have continued to show a Stevenson influence. But though he got off to a flying start with his Stevenson inheritance, he has never been able to travel...
...word of the cocksure conspirators that the whole rebellion would be over in two weeks-make it a month and be sure- most of the financial backing came from the "Richest Man in Spain,'' Monarchist Count of Romanones and racketeer-tycoon Juan March, the uneducated, onetime tobacco smuggler. Date of the uprising was set for July 25, 1936, the feast of Santiago (St. James). The murder of Fascist Deputy Jose Calvo Sotelo on July 12 pulled the trigger prematurely...
That most colorful of Spanish capitalists, illiterate Juan March, onetime tobacco smuggler, chief civilian backer of General Franco's armies, was back in Gibraltar last week after a hurried trip to impoverished Italy with the Duke of Alba in search of more aid. Loudly he reassured nervous Rightist supporters with the statement that he had authorized General Franco to spend $1,500,000,000 "subscribed abroad," by whom Juan March would...