Word: ibanez
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Court of St. James's, Chamberlain to King Alfonso of Spain, irate, took up his pen, wrote to the Sphere, London illustrated weekly, denied that Spain is decadent; answered an "arrant tissue of airy inventions" made previously in that periodical by one Mme. Bordeux on behalf of Vincente Blasco Ibanez, "notorious" Spanish novelist...
There followed an alleged campaign to purge Chile of Reds, during which it was observed that those arrested, jailed or deported were in very few instances tinged with Communism but were in every instance foes of Premier Ibanez. The crux came when the President's own brother was arrested as a Red, although he, Senor Javier Figueroa was actually Chief Justice of the Chilean Supreme Court, and legally immune from arrest...
Early last week Dictator Ibanez demanded the Chief Justice's resignation which was refused. Only the President of Chile could declare the office of Chief Justice vacant; and naturally the President refused thus to oust his own brother, the Chief Justice. What...
...Cabinet, mostly composed of quick-trigger army officers, assembled with Dictator-Premier Ibanez and despatched a verbal ultimatum to the President. President Figueroa had no option but to issue a proclamation as follows: "Serious personal motives compel me to absent myself from my constitutional duties for a period of two months. During this time the Minister of the Interior (Premier Ibanez) will rep)ace me in the Presidency with the title of Vice President of the Republic, in accordance with Article 66 of the Political Constitution of the State...
...first executive act, Vice President Ibanez declared the office of Chief Justice vacant. Thus he himself became absolute master of Chile by a subterfuge technically constitutional. He holds the executive power and has the supreme judiciary office to dispense...