Word: alcazar
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Encircled and under bombardment, Colonel Jose Moscardo, heroic defender of Toledo's Alcazar in Spain's Civil War, still refused to surrender his fortress to the Loyalists. To break him down, the Loyalists forced his son Luis, a prisoner, to speak to him by telephone across the lines...
...Prevention of Cruelty to Animals sent out three wagonloads of oats, carrots and apples for the city's work horses. Sweet but harassed rich girls prepared to make holiday debuts at Atlanta's Piedmont Driving Club, San Francisco's Palace Hotel, Baltimore's Alcazar, and in many another big-city ballroom. Boise, Idaho, a city of 40,000, raised a $700,000 hospital fund...
...shakier than he was last year; Big Bill Hutcheson, of the carpenters; Dan Tobin, of the teamsters; John Lewis, of the coal miners. They, and eleven others, were the executive council of the A.F.L., the bosses of more than 7,000,000 workingmen, assembled at Miami's Alcazar Hotel for their annual winter powwow...
...heavy black winter suit to emerge in black-&-white checks. John Lewis had arrived by limousine, demanding to know whether the hotel barbershop was Unionized. Told that it was, he had the works-shave, haircut, shampoo, massage and manicure. The 15 men met on the Alcazar's top floor last week, their thoughts on Washington, where Republican Congressmen were grinding out labor legislation...
...Manila Bay, when Francisco Franco first took notice of his star. By family and caste tradition he should have been a sailor. Because Spain was too poor to afford any more naval officers, he became a soldier. From seaside El Ferrel, in his native Galicia, he went to the Alcazar military school in Toledo. In 1912, at 20, he was a slender, shiny-eyed captain getting his baptism of fire and helping carve a new Spanish empire in Morocco...