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Cortes sent one of his lieutenants to Taxco in 1522 to dig silver out of the Indians who were digging it out of the surrounding mountains. But Taxco's first big silver boom did not occur until 1717, when a very smart young man named Jose de la Borda came out from Spain to show his uncles how to mine silver at a fantastic profit...
...local and provincial governments, propaganda, health, relief, national reconstruction, the national police. Since Boss Franco's brother-in-law and the Falangists' boss, Ramon Serrano Suner, gave up this portfolio last autumn to concentrate on the Foreign Ministry, the Ministry of Government has been run by Jose Lorente, one of Serrano's disciples...
Upped to Galarza's post of sub-secretary to the Caudillo was Luis Carrero Blanco, who was Chief of Naval Operations throughout the Civil War. In as Chief of Staff of the Army was another of Franco's intimates, General Jose Fidel Davila. Out went the Falangist head of the national police, many lesser fry and five provincial governors, including Miguel Primo de Rivera, brother of the Falange's founder. When the Falangist paper Arriba attacked him, Galarza promptly rescinded a five-day-old order exempting it from Government censorship...
TOWARD A PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY-Jose Orfega y Gassef-Norfon...
When The Revolt of the Masses (1932) became an international bestseller, nobody was more surprised than its author, Jose Ortega y Gasset, a quiet professor of metaphysics at Madrid University. But this forecast, actually written three years before Hitler came to power, soon had the ring of prophecy: "Before long there will be heard throughout the planet a formidable cry, rising like the howling of innumerable dogs to the stars, asking for someone or something to take command, to impose an occupation, a duty...