Word: madrid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the traditional chiefs of oldtime feuding days, reported Karnow. They have neither telephone nor telegraph, but they keep in touch through an elaborate network of signal fires and scores of runners who can relay a letter from 250 miles away within two days. One typical leader is a Madrid-educated lawyer known only as Sadek, who has stumped the region, whipping up the tribesmen with fiery speeches from balcony and rooftop. The chief of the Riffs' "central region'' is 33-year-old Mohammed Salem A'Mezzian, who claims he sent the King a list...
With a midnight knock at the door, Francisco Franco's security police struck in cities and towns. In San Sebastian and Madrid, Barcelona and Granada, hurriedly dressed men were hustled into squad cars and packed off to jail...
Died. Tyrone Power, cinemactor, 44; of a heart attack suffered on the set of United Artists' Solomon and Sheba, following a strenuous duel scene in which Power (King Solomon) was supposed to kill Actor George Sanders (Adonijah); in Madrid. The son and great-grandson of actors of the same name, Tyrone Power first learned his craft on the stage. Signed to a Fox contract in 1936, he was the cinema's top moneymaking star two years later, stacking up a list of credits that eventually included Jesse James, The Rains Came, Blood and Sand, Captain from Castile...
Roscoe Pound, former Dean of the Law School, received a special tribute last Monday from the International Institute for the Unification of Public Law in Madrid...
Representatives from the Supreme Court of Spain, the National Academy of Spain, and the University of Madrid attended the meeting at the Palace of Justice in Madrid...