Word: guardia
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...Guardia or the Tiger...
...drove one Tammany mayor into voluntary exile, would have none of General O'Ryan. Last week after weeks of bickering the Fusionists finally agreed on a candidate for the nation's No. 3 elective office. No neophyte in Manhattan's politics, Fiorello (Little Flower) Henry La Guardia was President of the Board of Aldermen 13 years ago, was the fiery little Republican candidate whom Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker defeated in 1929. But in the campaign he charged Tammany with most of the honeyfuggling which Samuel Seabury later proved in his famed probe. Last Autumn...
Finally Ambassador Bowers caught Premier Azana and delivered his diplomatic punch. Mr. Bowers knew that the Premier could not antagonize the Guardia Civil, chief prop of Spanish law & order under the Republic as it was under the Monarchy, but surely bail-high if necessary-could be arranged? As Minister of War the Premier is Commander of the Guardia Civil. He conferred with its chiefs in Madrid, then cabled orders to Mallorca...
...Lockwood, safe in a private villa, gasped, "I feel weak and have lost eight pounds in weight. I want to go away from here." Mr. Fullerton returned to the Hotel Mediterraneo where the Guardia Civil had been assaulted and had smacked Mrs. Lockwood with the flat of his sword. "Provided we are all treated fairly," said Mr. Fullerton, ''I will continue to live in Mallorca after the trial. Americans here have a bad name among Mallorcans. There should be a better understanding on both sides...
...Bowers and Premier Azana who promised ''expeditious conclusion" of the trial. It was expected to end in sentences of imprisonment so short that the five U. S. citizens can be declared to have served their time while being detained in jail, thus saving the honor of the Guardia Civil...