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...Spanish Embassy held Gabriel Garcia Menocal and Mario Miguel Menocal, relatives of onetime President Mario Garcia Menocal who headed the last anti-Machado revolution...
Copey" likes Palestrina, New England, mustard-colored suits, Kipling, Dickens. He envies Manoel Garcia, who taught singing until his 100th year and then became a cigar. Copey phobias are drafts, coughing, lateness, being photographed, being asked to write prefaces to books by former pupils, and fire. He always swore that Hollis was a fire trap...
...General Garcia de la Herranz leaped to his feet and demanded the same penalty as his chief. The judges ignored his request, sentenced him to 30 years imprisonment, equivalent in Spain to life sentence. Lieut.-Colonel Emilio Infante, a third culprit, was sentenced to twelve years in prison. General Sanjurjo's son Justo was acquitted, dismissed from the army...
...immediately sent troops to all parts of Spain. If General Sanjurjo's sentence were commuted there would be outbreaks by Communists and Syndicalists. If he were executed the Monarchists would rise. Clemency appeals began to pour in upon Premier Manuel Azana. Two were from the widow of Captain Garcia Hernandez and the mother of Captain Firmin Galan, both of whom were executed for attempting to overthrow King Alfonso. Premier Azana convened his cabinet to consider the decision...
...meeting was in progress when the police broke in. but they discovered a few books, probably dangerous. Captain Garcia, closely attended by his three lieutenants, gingerly picked up the biggest book, started to open it. With a thunderous detonation the book exploded, killed Captain Garcia, severely wounded the three lieutenants...