Word: juan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rebel destroyer Jupiter nosed in between the Jose Luis Diez and the Gibraltar shore. Convinced now that the blockade could not be run. Commander Juan Castro changed his course, ordered the ship back to British waters...
...only did the Loyalists face vastly superior armaments, but for the first time in the war they were outnumbered in soldiers in the field. Commanded by their best military brains-Generals Juan Sarrabia and Enrique Lister, Colonel Juan Modesto-the Loyalists employed the only possible methods of fighting under such conditions -i.e., slow retreat, then localized counterattacks. They hoped for a spell of bad weather to cripple the Rebel offensive...
Best evidence that on the Rightist side things were not as they should be came when wily Juan March, ex-smuggler, tobacco king and munitions salesman, more recently financial angel to Insurgent Spain, hotfooted it out of San Sebastian and went to earth in Biarritz. Señor March's comings & goings-especially goings-in & out of Spain have long been one of the most reliable barometers of the Spanish political weather. When trouble is brewing, Señor March is generally found in neutral territory...
...Rightists and Leftists alike. More important, however, an opening has been made, possibly for Alfonso's return to the throne in the event of a final Franco victory, more likely for a crown for the healthier of Alfonso's two living sons, 25-year-old Prince Juan...
...Buenos Aires in 1936 changed the Latin American picture of Uncle Sam from a giant with a club into a kindly Tennessee judge. As the Santa Clara nosed into the locks of the Panama Canal, Cordell Hull debarked to pay tribute to Panama's President Juan Demostenes Arosemena. Delegate Alf M. Landon got off to pay non-partisan tribute to Cordell Hull: "The good neighbor policy has been made a realistic policy instead of a phrase to catch the imagination...