Word: sanchez
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Soviet posters and pictures of Stalin were stuck up by the Communists. Under its architect-director, Manuel Sanchez Areas, the Propaganda Ministry proceeded to cry down these vagaries with official posters exhorting civilians to evacuate Madrid, to bring food to Madrid, to be vaccinated, to stop talking and get down to business. All in all, no less than 4,000,000 posters have been printed in the lithographers' shops of Madrid, Valencia and Barcelona...
...morning last week in Orizaba, police, acting on undetermined authority, surrounded a house where Father José María Flores was illegally celebrating Mass. As his congregation of 58 women and four men began to leave, the police opened fire. Down dropped 14-year-old Leonor Sanchez and Orizaba's Catholics had a martyr...
Next day two Socialists were killed and four wounded by machine-gun bullets from a speeding car presumptively Fascist. They were avenged by catching a young Fascist, Jose Maria Sanchez, stripping him naked, tying him to a tree, savagely demolishing his head with bullets. In Galicia a plebiscite revealed that 85% of the voters are so disgusted with the wavering bourgeois-radical Madrid Cabinet that they demand self-rule for Galicia...
...later at Santander a crowd of black-bereted Basques rose gasping to their feet as the great Belmonte was tossed, gored in the thigh by another bull. He was not seriously hurt, was able to finish the fight. Less fortunate was another veteran of Belmonte's generation, Ignacio Sanchez Mejia. Also attempting a come back at Manzanares, he was so badly gored that despite operations and blood transfusions, he died...
...bonito!" roared the marketmen and cut off the dead bull's ears, again just like old times. They sent Antonio Sanchez home with all the cabbages, turnips, beans, he could carry...