Word: joses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last May Socialist Laborite Nominee Aiken went to Manhattan, bought a second-hand 1934 Chevrolet and, accompanied by Herman Simon, a San Jose, Calif, school teacher, set out to stump...
Clinics were established in Seattle, Portland, San Francisco. Oakland, San Jose. Los Angeles, Hollywood. Long Beach, San Diego. The Oakland institution was reported so busy it maintained an ever-burning furnace in which abortions were incinerated...
...Basques assumed police duties, as 300 Anarchists released from this chore dashed to face the Whites in battle. Meanwhile Governor Ortega sent his son Jose snaking out with a flag of truce. General Mola ceased fire for 48 hours, then sent an ultimatum that citizens had 48 hours to clear out of San Sebastian before the Whites advanced. Up to the very last hour it was touch & go whether the Basques and Ortega could keep the Anarchist pyromaniacs from "Direct Action." Finally, in a moderately humane battle, the Whites under General Mola went crashing victoriously along with their trucks...
...British Admiralty and Foreign Office, without even bothering vacationing Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, applied quiet screws to Madrid. Although His Majesty's Government have always been able to interpret the laws of blockade to give the Royal Navy freedom of action, they last week easily overwhelmed Spanish Premier Jose Giral, a pharmacist by profession, with awful reasons why it would be not only against international law but positively wicked for Spanish warboats to interfere with British ships on the high seas. At week's end, Premier Giral gave the fullest assurances that British ships will not be thus...
...have been carefully financed and planned in advance for it burst simultaneously during a single night in five cities of Spanish Morocco and at least twelve in Spain proper. At Madrid the sympathy of prominent Army figures with the Revolution was so marked that by last week distracted Premier Jose Giralt Pereira, a mild-mannered onetime apothecary, had progressively dismissed a total of 42 Spanish generals and was said to have left in his War Office not a single strategist or tactician of standing...