Word: alcala
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Objective editors noted with keen interest last week that Niceto Alcala. Zamora y Torres, who was the Republican President of Spain up to less than a year ago and today earns his living as a journalist in France, has now contributed to the Swiss Journal de Geneve his historic recollections of how things went in Madrid under the premiership of Manuel Azana who today is the Leftist Government's President of Spain...
...Dionisio, raced the flood to his headquarters at Echagüe and telegraphed before the wires went down that there were already 20 known dead in the village of Cagayan. He added: "No reports received from the towns and barrios around Ilagan, as they are submerged." The postmaster at Alcala succeeded in reporting that the river was six feet over the tops of the telegraph poles. Reports from another village indicated that there were 75 persons missing; 54 villages were known to be submerged; people crouching on the roofs of their houses were carried away screaming in the flood. After...
...Niceto Alcala Zamora was recently forced to resign as President of (1 Spain, 2 Portugal, 3 Brazil, 4 Cuba, 5 Mexico...
Forehanded Niceto Alcala Zamora had already closed his Presidential Palace desk, gone home where he refused to receive the commission sent to tell him the bad news. Said he: "I am nobody's servant." Automatically elevated to the Provisional Presidency was another Left Republican, Diego Martinez-Barrios, onetime linotype operator, onetime Premier and Premier Manuel Azaña's prot...
...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...