Word: alcala
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Certainly Don Manuel, chunky and relentless, has no heart, no pity for his enemies. He ruled Spain as Premier for all but a few weeks of the past two years, was abruptly dropped as "too radical" by chubby, Church-loving President Niceto Alcala Zamora (TIME, Sept. 18). Last week new Premier Lerroux, a Bryanesque idealist, had held office for 21 days, had never dared to ask a vote of confidence from the Cortes and still dared not ask one. He knew that in a straight vote Man-With-No-Soul Azana and Snake Prieto would soon beat him. Wringing...
...Chancellor Dollfuss' Catholicism is studded with Calvinistic phrases. He is devoid of personal ambition, believes himself directly inspired by God. Correspondents figure that when explaining his policies he uses the phrase "according to my conscience" at least once every ten minutes. Dollfuss, incidentally, like equally devout President Alcala Zamora of Spain, is one of the few statesmen who never prepare a speech, rarely use notes, never stutter at a loss for words. His speeches, like Calvinist sermons, are "directly inspired...
Next day, with his hat over his eyes, a young Spanish Republican swaggered down Madrid's Broadway, the noisy Calle de Alcala. Before the 17th Century Calatravas Church, he stopped. Its soft slate façade was a mass of scrawled inscriptions and caricatures. One he had never noticed before, a silhouet of a man with a large hooked nose and protruding...
Whether the excommunication included only the Cabinet and the Deputies who voted the church laws or embraced the entire Government from President Zamora down to the humblest customs inspector, was not stated. Hardest hit was Alcala Zamora. A devout Catholic, he dearly loves the solace of the Mass. When Madrid hotheads set fire to Jesuit churches two years ago, plump Senora Alcala Zamora distinguished herself by driving in an open carriage to each of the burned buildings, sitting before the door loudly saying her beads...
...last possible moment, still gesticulating. Alcala Zamora signed the church law. Of all the governments that used to acknowledge official allegiance to Rome, only Hungary is left...