Word: madrid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know where to lay hands on Ambrose Bierce, Charley Ross or Judge Crater, there are people who turn up at irregular intervals with grandiose and intricate claims to large chunks of the U.S. Lawyers make money out of these things, and everybody else laughs. On the stage of Madrid's Teatro Martin one night recently, everybody laughed at "Lepe," Spain's favorite clown...
...Legend. Muñoz came to politics almost by birthright. His father, Luis Muñoz Rivera, often called Puerto Rico's George Washington, headed the colonial government in the latter days of the Spanish rule, and in 1897 obtained from the Madrid government a charter which provided some autonomies (e.g., the right to make trade treaties with foreign nations) which Puerto Rico does not have now. After the cession of Puerto Rico to the U.S., Muñoz Rivera was invited to take a cabinet post in Madrid. He declined. He chose to stay in Puerto Rico, later...
Bishop Herrera only became a priest 8½ years ago. A graduate in law and philosophy of the University of Salamanca, he gave up his law practice in Madrid to devote full time to Catholic activities and was soon recognized as leader of the Catholic party in Spain. In 1935, just a few months before the Civil War began, Angel Herrera decided, at 48, to become a priest...
...next 24 hours, all Madrid, titillated by the looming duel of honor, hunted up copies of Press Mission in Spain. Though banned, it could be bought in the black market at 500 pesetas ($20) a copy. The price was steep but rewarding. Serrano Suñer had passed on to the book's author, Journalist Armando Chavez Camacho of Mexico City, a choice comment by Adolf Hitler on Sancho Davila, a burly Falangist bullyboy who had once killed two party rivals in a political brawl, and had long been feuding with Serrano Suñer. Sneered...
Married. Cristóbal de Carvajal, Duke of Veragua, 24, lieutenant in the Spanish navy, who, as the only descendant of Christopher Columbus, inherits the title of Admiral of the Indies; and Anunciada Gorosabel y Ramírez de Haro, 22, Madrid socialite; in Madrid...