Word: alejandro
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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SHADOWS OF THE SUN-Alejandro Perez Lugin; trans. by Sidney Franklin-Scribner ($2.50). Bullfighting novel by a late Spanish journalist, translated by a U. S. matador...
Decision to call the strike came shortly after Alejandro Leroux, leader of Spain's radical party, had formed a new cabinet and presented the list to President Niceto Alcala Zamora...
Meanwhile for three days Spain was without a Government. Rows with the radicals in the Cortes, whose rioting brothers were carefully omitted from the amnesty bill, forced the resignation of staunch Rightish Premier Alejandro Lerroux and his cabinet. Tugging at his unruly hair, scratching at his stubbly chin, President Alcala Zamora attempted to find a Premier. The choice of either reactionary Catholic Leader Gil Robles or shrewd, radical Manuel Azana might easily start a civil war. Finally he picked a political dummy for Alejandro Lerroux named Ricardo Samper Ibanez, an owlish, spectacled lawyer from Valencia and Lerroux's onetime...
Madrid, April 25--A "state of alarm" was declared throughout Spain tonight, following resignation of the government of prime minister Alejandro Lerroux. This is the second step toward martial law, permitting the authorities certain mandatory privileges over civilians, martial law will be next and may be declared if the government crisis is not settled shortly or labor unrest causes renewed violence. The president set about seeking a new prime minister immediately to give Spain a new government...
...stalked into the Spanish garrison at Cape Jubion the coast of Spain's colony of Rio de Oro south of Morocco. "I am a political exile from French Morocco," said he. "I ask for your protection. I am the Blue Sultan." In Madrid Spain's Premier Alejandro Lerroux told the good news. For the nth time the French command announced that "'the back of Moorish resistance is broken." Sixty thousand Legionaires and French colonials had their best night's sleep in years...