Word: largo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strikes-as compared to more than 1,000,000 few months ago when it was a case of getting wages upped and winning vacations (TIME, June 8 et seq.). The new strikes were in sympathy with the new Spanish Cabinet headed by out-and-out proletarian Premier Francisco Largo Caballero (see p. 22). In Paris an imposing delegation from the French Metal Workers' Union bearing a petition with 2,000 signatures waited on French Premier Leon Blum, demanding that he send aid to the Spanish Reds. "Whom do you take me for, Messieurs?" retorted Socialist Blum. "My efforts...
...crumbled as Irun fell and the Reds grew desperate. Almost a prisoner in his own Presidential Palace, scared Don Manuel Azana appointed as Premier last week not Spain's moderate No. 1 Socialist Leader Indalecio Prieto (TIME, Sept. 7), but the extreme radical No. 2 Socialist Leader Francisco Largo Caballero who has spent most of his time in recent weeks dressed in blue overalls fighting with the Red militia amid the Guadarrama Mountains in efforts to keep the Whites from capturing Madrid. New Premier Largo Caballero announced weeks ago that the Madrid Government, if victorious, would proclaim in Spain...
...Cabinet of onetime Housepainter Largo Caballero this week newly appointed Socialists and Communists assumed the Government of Spain-the sole regime in Western Europe now to contain even a single Communist member of the Cabinet. This did not change but did regularize existing authority in Madrid. At latest dispatches the Capital had by no means fallen, although Generalissimo Franco was leading his main army in person against it from the south and was advancing toward Toledo...
...Great Powers had high hopes last week of getting the Madrid Cabinet and the provisional President of its foes, General Miguel Cabanellas, to sign their solemnly drafted pact for "humanizing the Spanish Civil War," ending both Red and White atrocities. Before General Cabanellas could be heard from, new Premier Largo Caballero flatly rejected for Madrid all "humanizing," took for the Spanish Government the position that this is a fratricidal struggle so desperate that everything goes and must continue...
...seventh week, the strongest figure in Madrid, correspondents agreed, was no member of the Cabinet of Premier José Giral Pereira but enormous Socialist Indalecio Prieto to whom Spaniards in the capital looked for inspiration. Fighting at the front in overalls was No. 2 Socialist Francisco Largo Caballero, which left the No. 1 a clear field in Madrid last week to state for the first time what is the Government's program in case its Red militia defeat 80% of the Spanish army led by Generalissimo Francisco Franco and General Emilio Mola in a White (i. e., conservative) insurrection...