Word: azana
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...streets of Madrid, made the philosophical assertion: "Violence is deeply enshrined in the Spanish people. The time has not yet come for Spaniards to stop shooting one another." President Azafia made a still greater sensation with his dictum: "The only person whose views are always correct is Azana...
...Minister under Dictator Primo de Rivera and Alfonso XIII, followed his King into exile, returned to Spain under an amnesty of the Republic. He was taken from his home and butchered by uniformed members of the Government's own Assault Guards. Though these assassins admittedly acted without President Azana's knowledge, their crime showed that the most violent Left terrorism was now operating in the shadow of the Government itself. In Right opinion, the Republic had ceased to uphold republican order or republican rights and the first broadside issued by forces of the Revolution said they were striving...
Regarded as the smartest man in Spain today is obese and blotchy onetime Premier Manuel Azana. When he saw things slipping beyond his control as Premier, he got himself elected President of Spain with a salary of 1,000,000 pesetas yearly and another 1,000,000 for the expenses of his frog-faced self and young wife...
...terrific Conservative majority. Barrios fell. First Lerroux, then Samper became Premier. Month after month Socialists, Syndicalists, Communists have seen the country swing further and further to the Right. There is definite threat of a semi-Fascist dictatorship. Radicals of all complexions from the rose-pink of Manuel Azana to the black anarchism of innumerable hotheads joined for a final attempt at revolution...
...carefully omitted from the amnesty bill, forced the resignation of staunch Rightish Premier Alejandro Lerroux and his cabinet. Tugging at his unruly hair, scratching at his stubbly chin, President Alcala Zamora attempted to find a Premier. The choice of either reactionary Catholic Leader Gil Robles or shrewd, radical Manuel Azana might easily start a civil war. Finally he picked a political dummy for Alejandro Lerroux named Ricardo Samper Ibanez, an owlish, spectacled lawyer from Valencia and Lerroux's onetime Minister of Industry & Commerce. All but three of the Lerroux Cabinet were reappointed. Most notable omission was cultivated dome-browed...