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While working full time for the AAUP in Washington during the academic year, Francis reserved her summers for La Granja, Spain, a town north of Madrid, where her mother had founded a summer school for American girls...
...guerrillas' lack of administrative and economic experience led to a weak granja, or co-op, system charac...
...Answers: 1) Philip II was wed to Maria of Portugal, Mary I of England, Elizabeth of Valois and Anna, daughter of Emperor Maximilian II; 2) Philip V could not abide Escorial's royal vault, was buried at his request at La Granja; 3) Isabel was so rewarded because she had been a reigning queen...
...Mexican peon bound to a cross surmounted by an American eagle. He was promptly deported. Then the Spanish civil war broke out, and Siqueiros got back into uniform with something like relief. Fighting still came naturally; he commanded a motorized brigade in the battles of Caballon, Guadalupe and La Granja, and rose to be a division commander just before the end. Back home, he was welcomed at first, then thrown in jail for eight months on suspicion of taking part in the first-and unsuccessful-attempt on Trotsky's life...
...Royalists recently won offices, scored the first victory for their party since the founding of the Republic. Cockily last week President Alcala Zamora, who has been surrounding himself with more & more pomp until his entourage is almost regal, announced: "I will spend most of the summer at La Granja palace," famed for its luxurious gardens, often called the Spanish Versailles. Only 15 months ago Senor Alcala Zamora was in jail...
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