Word: alcala
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...municipal election six Royalists recently won offices, scored the first victory for their party since the founding of the Republic. Cockily last week President Alcala Zamora, who has been surrounding himself with more & more pomp until his entourage is almost regal, announced: "I will spend most of the summer at La Granja palace," famed for its luxurious gardens, often called the Spanish Versailles. Only 15 months ago Senor Alcala Zamora was in jail...
...first birthday of Spain's Republic, the anniversary of the day Alfonso XIII fled from his country. Airplanes dropped 50,000 little red, yellow and purple parachutes; there were gala football matches and bullfights. Pink with pleasure, tousle-haired President Niceto Alcala Zamora reviewed 10,000 troops in the Castellana avenue, presided over a lunch to the diplomatic corps. He was too excited to remember to go to a broadcasting studio in time to speak to the Americas. Madrid crowds, never anxious to go to bed, danced in the Puerta del Sol all night. The keynote speech was made...
...Republic has resolved the important problems it found pending, it is going to occupy itself principally with invigorating the nation's economic life, using every resource to favor the circulation of capital and procure a renaissance of public riches." Next day many a Madrid editor accused President Alcala Zamora of "living like a king" and "wasting public moneys." Mrs. Alcala Zamora created a diversion by announcing she had picked up a "homeless waif," restored the waif publicly to its parents...
Merrily last week Spain's Presidential Train chuffed from Valencia to Madrid carrying President Alcala Zamora, driven by the Duke of Zaragoza with many a toot! toot...
...monastery, the government of Premier Manuel Azana drew up a long-contemplated decree abolishing the Jesuit order in Spain, confiscating all its property, estimated at $30,000,000 exclusive of security and trust holdings in the name of individuals, said to amount to $70,000,000. President Alcala Zamora signed the order. Jesuit superiors were expecting it, novices were ordered to pack up and get ready to leave the country, but suddenly the government grew timorous. Days passed, the decree was not published in the official gazette...