Word: iberico
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...court, behind the duchess, sat her codefendants: a lawyer, a printshop owner, a printer and Don Bernardo Bernardez, an elderly monarchist leader and onetime banker. Having been fired from his post at the Banco Iberico, Don Bernardo deemed himself a ruined man. But as a Spanish caballero, there was one thing more he could do for Luisa Maria. He could, in spite of his wife and ten children, take the rap for the duchess. Don Bernardo stoutly denied that she had any connection with his political activities. Said he: "If the facts are criminal, I myself am the only criminal...
...Calle de la Vega the night watchman banged his stick on the sidewalk, clanked a ring of keys, then unlocked the door for a party of four plainclothesmen. The visitors walked up the stairs to the apartment of Don Bernardo Bernardez, 63, respected executive of the Banco Iberico and well-known elder of Spain's monarchist movement...
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