Word: joses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chief upshot of the long-drawn war for the steamy Gran Chaco between Bolivia and Paraguay was that in both Republics the constitutional governments were overthrown, replaced by tight little military- fascist juntas. Last week in La Paz the Bolivian junta headed by excitable Colonel Jose David Toro capitalized on the scare that its overthrow was being plotted by Standard Oil Co. (N. J.). To President Toro, as that shrewd politico had foreseen, came prompt reassurances from the Government-organized syndicates of workers, miners and railway workers pledging all their strength to fend off any such attempt...
Advantage of morale was still with the Leftists, with Madrid's populace sure the war had been almost won last week. Madrid's defending General Jose Miaja talking in terms of victory within two months if there is not further heavy foreign aid to the Rightists, and foreign military observers predicting two more years of grueling war in Spain-all this according to the New York Times'?, able Madrid Correspondent Herbert L. Matthews...
This woke up that lion-hearted lawyer, President Jose Antonio de Aguirre y Lecube of the Basques. If a devout Catholic and a communist fanatic could be rolled into one, the result might approximate President de Aguirre. He keeps a tall ebony-&-gold crucifix on his desk but pounds this piece of furniture with voluble class-conscious vim remindful at times of Father Coughlin. As the offensive of General Mola was just getting under way, Basque de Aguirre went on the air with an impassioned broadcast...
...Armies of Tin Soldiers!" Equally brimming with Spanish passion last week in Madrid was its Defense Junta head, bald General Jose Miaja who at first tried to keep his Red Militia from growing over confident at their success northeast of Madrid in driving Italian Rightists back nearly 20 miles (TIME, March 22). The General by last week had toured the ter rain from which the Italians fled, abandoning roughly 2,000,000 rounds of am munition, and his pride in Spanish prow ess was at bursting point. A group of neutral Red Cross doctors and nurses offered General Miaja...
...Since 1924, when Russians began to make opera suit their ideology, there have been other extraordinary Carmcns. The gypsy is sometimes represented as a Jewess. She converts Captain Josef (Don Jose) to communism, falls in love with a Polish wrestler, dies uttering a paran the World State...