Word: arriba
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Shocked into action, Maverickos last week went to work again. With shouts of Arriba Maury Maverick! they rallied San Antonio's Mexicans for the runoff next week. And Maverick, fighting for his political life, appealed to his middle-class white supporters with attacks on Quin's Negro supporters, tore into Bellinger as "that black baboon" who would be more powerful than San Antonio's whites if Quin...
...Chief of Staff of the Army was another of Franco's intimates, General Jose Fidel Davila. Out went the Falangist head of the national police, many lesser fry and five provincial governors, including Miguel Primo de Rivera, brother of the Falange's founder. When the Falangist paper Arriba attacked him, Galarza promptly rescinded a five-day-old order exempting it from Government censorship...
...unfortunate for Good Neighborism. In Havana a gang of youths hurled bottles through the plate-glass windows of a Woolworth 5-&-10? store with notes in the bottles saying: "Down with the American Senate!" "This reply to the American Senator!" In Madrid the Falangist newspaper Arriba seized upon the resolution as an indication of U. S. imperialism, observed that "neither Cuba nor the other Latin-American countries have any connection with the British and Protestant civilization of the United States." In Washington, Secretary of State Cordell Hull had to make the wholly unnecessary explanation that the resolution, although introduced...
...Spain and France there was no rejoicing, only a queer, unreal enthusiasm. Arriba of Madrid, the Falangist paper, tried to take consolation in a link of blood with ancient Germans. Basques, Asturians, Castilians, it said, "bear the unmistakable imprint of their Visigoth origin." In Paris, Le Temps's editorial writer cut a tiny gem of black futility: "There are days when it is difficult to write anything at all on any subject whatsoever...
...fail to consider England as the most direct violator of our destiny," shouted Arriba. "Spain was first a neutral, then nonbelligerent, and now is physically on the verge of battle...