Word: cuesta
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only legal political organization in Spain. Already Minister of the Interior, Serrano Suñer became president of the policy-making Falangist Council and acquired the portfolios of Public Order, Sanitation and Health. His most potent rival within the Falange, anti-Italian, conservative Raimundo Fernández Cuesta, lost his jobs as Secretary of the Falange and Minister of Agriculture. An even more important scalp was that of Foreign Minister General Count Francisco Gómez Jordana, formerly the strongest Cabinet spokesman of the old Army point of view. The anti-Axis Army, in short, would in future have...
That the state will be a strictly authoritarian one could not be doubted after the oath which was sprung last week on the members of the Grand Council of the Falange Espanola Tradidonalista, the new Fascist substitute for Parliament. Raimundo Fernandez Cuesta, secretary general of Spain's only party, demanded "blind obedience" to Generalissimo Franco, ended by proposing an oath: "We proclaim our inflexible will to obey unconditionally the orders of our Caudillo. As proof of that sacred promise, let the Councillors of the Falange swear with me before God always to obey the Caudillo and those who receive...
Agriculture: Raimundo Fernaádez Cuesta, Falángist (Spanish Fascist), and a longtime prisoner until recently exchanged...
Married. William Curley, editor of William Randolph Hearst's New York Evening Journal; and one Mary Grace; at "La Cuesta Encantada" on the Hearst Ranch at San Simeon, Calif. Bridesmaids were Mrs. Stephen ("Laddie") Sanford, Doris Duke Cromwell, Marion Davies...
...ranch of William Randolph Hearst. Midway between San Francisco and Los Angeles, it surveys the Pacific along a 50-mile crest of hills. Five times the size of the District of Columbia, its 240,000 acres give lordly privacy to its little capital. La Cuesta Encantada. On this Enchanted Hill, the monarch's castle rears cathedral towers to the sky. On the hill's slope, lesser castles serve humbly as "guest houses'"-Casa del Mar, Casa del Monte, Casa del Sol. Hard by these are enchanted gardens, marble swimming pools, a zoo complete with lion, leopard, bear...