Word: julio
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other Spanish generals were ousted for similar cause. Hero of the hour was Lieut.-Colonel Julio Mangada, the only officer present who refused to join Spain's Chief of Staff in shouting "Viva Espana!" (the last words uttered by King Alfonso XIII before he left Spain). Rebuked by the Chief of Staff in the presence of common soldiers for refusing to shout "Viva Espana!", heroic Lieut.-Colonel Mangada reached for his service pistol, was pounced upon and arrested...
Transferred. Salvador de Madariaga, Spanish Ambassador to the U. S.; to Paris, where he will be able more easily to continue his useful League of Nations work. Possible successor in Washington: Julio Alvarez del Vayo, present Spanish Ambassador to Mexico...
...Mexico," Secretary of War and onetime President, was elected head of Compania Hulera Mexicana, newly organized to make synthetic rubber. In January the company will have a factory ready to produce 400 motor tires and 5,000 rubber heels daily. The formula is the work of one Julio Tellez Giron, 46, research chemist who spent 17 years developing his theory that petroleum in its early stages closely resembles rubber. His process is to take crude petroleum, mix it with ground sugar cane. This compound is refined, fried in the sun, vulcanized with sulphur.* Compania Hulera Mexicana is capitalized...
...days later Premier Julio Sunila presented to the Diet a Government bill to set Dec. 29 and 30 as days on which the Finnish people may choose by national referendum one of three courses...
...Yacht Club has been a hotbed of anti-Machado intrigue ever since a member of Dictator Machado's Cabinet was snubbed by a Yacht Club member last December and President Gerardo Machado, El Gallo ("The Rooster"), pad locked the clubhouse in retaliation. Fort night ago Julio Cadena's yacht Coral slipped away from the yacht club pier with Cuba's onetime President, bearded Mario Garcia Menocal on board, also Colonel Carlos Mendieta and a shipload of other insurgents. Their plan was to go down the coast, land, take charge of revo lutionary forces that had already taken...