Word: falangist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...results seemed to confirm that harsh view. The roster of new Procuradores (Deputies) reads like Who's Who in the Falangist Establishment: mayors, provincial deputies, civil service employees, labor bigwigs, army officers and a sprinkling of businessmen. But in the twelve months since it took office, Spain's most representative group of public officials has taken to the business of government with precisely the kind of independent spirit that Strongman Franco tried to weed out in advance. The new Cortes members (called family Deputies because they were elected by male and female heads of families) have repeatedly raised...
...most European countries, even some of the Communist bloc, the alleged offenses would be classified as trivia. The Madrid daily El Alcazar, for example, was fined $375 for erroneously reporting that a Falangist leader had paid a call on Franco. A Barcelona editor was given an eight-month prison term for publishing a letter that denounced Catalan nationalism-a letter that echoed the government's own views. Why, then, was he punished? In a nation where veiled irony and subtle ridicule have been wielded so often in place of open criticism, nervous officials may detect calculated mischief-making even...
...Spaniards have long scanned the official press for clues as to which of the Borbóns Generalissimo Francisco Franco, 75, might pick to fill the long-vacant throne. Monarchist activists pin their hopes on exiled Pretender Don Juan, 55, a moderate who favors evolution toward parliamentary democracy. Many Falangist regulars lean toward his son, Juan Carlos, 30, in the belief that the carefully schooled younger man would prove willing to stick with the regime's less flexible principles...
Paradoxically, Ridruejo's Falangist past works for him rather than against him. Whatever feelings of personal guilt he may have, he is not subject to ridicule by his compatriots. He is afforded only the greatest respect being an especially venerated figure among the young...
Modicum of Affluence. Even before they were granted the right to strike, the workers' lot had been gradually improving. Under pressure from the boss of its own sindicatos, a labor-minded Falangist named José Solís Ruiz, the regime has raised the minimum wage twice in the past ten years, from 60? a day to $1.40. And that is only a starting point. Most Spanish workers also take home incentive pay, family allowance and a variety of other fringe benefits that boost their average income to between $4 and $7 a day. Their paychecks stretch a long...