Word: alejandro
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young Californian named Carl Schmidt discovered the Fuerte in the patio of Señor Alejandro LeBlanc in Atlixco, Mexico. He sent a few buds back home, the middle classes of the U. S. began to hanker after avocados, and in 1934-35 there was a bumper crop of 20,000,000 pounds which brought in $600,000 to California avocado growers. But last year there was another Big Freeze, which went hard with avocados. Ordinarily, the avocado harvest lasts through the summer, but by last week this season's harvest was over...
...Spaniards took alarm last September when perennial Premier Alejandro Lerroux resigned once more and passed the Government to his fellow Radical (actually Conservative) Joaquin Chapaprieta. But all Spain sat up last week when Monarchist Deputies screamed in the Cortes that Lerroux's resignation had come immediately after President Niceto Alcala Zamora received a letter from a Mexican gambler and promoter named Daniel Straus who unfolded a strange and scandalous story of 2,000,000 pesetas worth of bribes to bigwigs of Lerroux's party...
...Spaniards there is something decidedly special about an English Lord. Spanish beggars are apt to address any tourist as "My Lord"; if that fails, as "My God"; and finally, if they get no coppers, as "Rosbiff Goddam!" Last week shaggy old Premier Alejandro Lerroux, who put down the proletarian revolt by having over 3,000 rebels shot, felt that the least he could do was to receive Lord Listowel & Commission in his private rooms at the Cortes. Spanish blood was up, Spanish honor at stake. Same afternoon, in the Cortes, Spain's No. 1 Catholic politician, Fascist...
Suppressor was Premier Alejandro Lerroux, sole old-style Republican in Spain's Rightist Cabinet of Catholics. Monarchists and Fascists. Like Britain's Ramsay MacDonald, he is famed for his old wars on tyranny, for his soft and gentlemanly heart and. to the mind of Labor, for his betrayal of democracy. He was backed last week solidly by the Army, Navy, Civil Guards, retired Army officers, noblemen and women of Spain...
Early last week the Cortes (parliament) reassembled and the Conservative-coalition Cabinet of Premier Samper fell. President Alcala Zamora asked idealistic Alejandro Lerroux to form another Government. He did, giving three seats to the reactionary Catholic Party which was largely responsible for Samper's fall...