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...military junta, backing Provisional President Luis Larrea Alba, announced that constitutional elections would be held...
...under way. As unostentatiously as possible many of Mexico's lawmakers divided into little groups and stood near the exits eying each other. In the midst of an anti-de la Mora speech by Deputy Jose Manuel Chavez, two Jalisco deputies, Manuel H. Ruiz and Esteban Garcia de Alba, sprang up demanding to be heard. Ismael Lozano. President of the Chamber, denied them and immediately adjourned the session...
...Manuel Ruiz died on the steps of the speaker's tribune with eight bullets in his body. General Sebastian Allende went down in the fusillade with a shot through the spine which he insisted came from somebody's chauffeur, standing in the doorway. Deputy Esteban Garcia de Alba blazed away until a bullet through the hand sent his pistol spinning. From his dugout beneath the press desk the Associated Press correspondent counted more than 60 shots before hostilities ceased and the Red Cross and police rushed...
President Ayora ordered Congress convened to consider his "integrity." Congress decided his integrity was none of their business. There upon President Ayora proffered his resignation. Congress, unanimous except for President Manuel Navarro of the Chamber of Deputies, snatched the resignation. Left to preside over Ecuador was Colonel Luis Larrea Alba, newly made Minister of Government...
When King Alfonso XIII of Spain passed through Paris on his way back to Madrid last March he dropped in to visit his good friend Jose Maria Sert. On view at Senor Sert's studio were the great murals he had just painted for the Duke of Alba's elaborate Palacio de Liria. Wrought chiefly in tones of gold, the paintings represented the history of the Alba family, several of whom are saints, since the 14th Century. By the time Alfonso XIII got home, abdicated and got back to Paris, Artist Sert was well along with his next...