Word: alcala
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Died. Niceto Alcalá Zamora y Torres, 71, first President of the second Spanish Republic (1931-36); after long illness; in Buenos Aires. A Monarchist turned Republican, Alcala Zamora became President after a bloodless revolution in 1931, was himself kicked out of office by leftists three months before the outbreak of civil war in 1936, was finally exiled by Franco...
...shell splinter: "The Japs can't stand up to an American division on the flat. They cannot take that tremendous fire power." Two days after the jump the Cagayan Valley was U.S. territory - the 11th and 37th had met near the burning nipa huts of Alcala without a Jap soldier in sight...
Every house in Madrid last week displayed either the flag of Nationalist Spain or a picture of Francisco Franco, or both. Along the broad, tree-lined Gran Via and the busy Calle de Alcala leading to the Puerta del Sol, from new flagpoles fluttered thousands of the red-&-gold flags, flanked by the emblems of Spain's single Fascist party, the Falange Espanola, and of the traditionalist Requetés. Each pole bore the single word...