Word: cortese
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A chubby, tousle-haired Andalusian lawyer who is often too busy to shave, Niceto Alcala Zamora y Torres, was elected first Constitutional President of Spain by the Cortes last week. Next day he was inaugurated.
In the Cortes at Madrid, Minister of the Interior Miguel Maura laid Seville's troubles directly to fat-faced Major Ramon Franco, politico-aviator, now a Deputy.
Jose Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher, theosophist and delegate to the Cortes of Spain, stood last week in a rostrum that has not been used for eight years.
Almost immediately every one of the 470 sculptors was on his feet, demanding for himself the honor of making a speech on the first day of Spain's Republican Parliament. At the height of the uproar, when chandeliers shook with the din, Narciso Vasquez Lemus, the oldest Deputy, who...
Syndicalists, nearest native equivalent of Communists, held a convention in Madrid to plan for a great general strike to protest the assembly of the Republican Cortes, which they consider far too conservative. First move was to call out all the Syndicalist employes of the telephone company.