Word: junta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...upholstered seats were changed to blue. Marble tables bearing honor rolls of past liberal leaders were removed. Paintings and inscriptions distasteful to the Falange were torn from the walls. The President of the Cortes' dais was raised to befitting Fascist level. Special space was allotted to the junta of the Falange. Carefully, it was seen that no accommodation for public or press should be available. Everything that recalled any liberal period since the Cortes of Cádiz in 1812 was gone as the Procuradores (literally: procurers) of Spain's new Cortes assembled last week to be sworn...
...Cuba, Panama was abuzz. When he heard that Don Arnulfo was gone, onetime Police Chief Colonel Manuel Pino rubbed his hands. With two other veteran politicos, Julio Fabrega and Leopoldo Arosemena, he had been planning for a month to seize the police force and set up a junta...
...before the junta could step in, another figure appeared. He was pale-faced, lame Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia, one of the best friends the U.S. had in Arias' Cabinet. He took over the police in Arias' name, spoiling the junta's plans...
...engineers and firemen in passenger train service is based on 100 miles or five hours, whichever makes the fatter envelope. Thus the engineer on the Santa Fe's crack El Capitan makes $15.77 for the 2½-hour, 203-mile run between Dodge City, Kans. and La Junta, Colo...
...shake-up was the Primo de Rivera clan, the royal family of the Falange. Falangist Arrese married a cousin of Founder José Antonio Primo de Rivera. But the big gainer was Foreign Minister Ramón Serrano Suòer, who as head of the Falange's Junta Politico, outranks Secretary General Arrese. Just how much Serrano and the Falange had gained was made clear in another decree removing the division of press and propaganda from the Ministry of Government and placing it in the hands of the Falange...