Word: manuel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Serpiente!" ("You snake!") he hissed at grinning Socialist Leader Indalecio Prieto, then whirled upon Spain's great radical Republican, Don Manuel Azana. "Hombre de talento pero desalmado!" ("You man with a brain but no soul...
Certainly Don Manuel, chunky and relentless, has no heart, no pity for his enemies. He ruled Spain as Premier for all but a few weeks of the past two years, was abruptly dropped as "too radical" by chubby, Church-loving President Niceto Alcala Zamora (TIME, Sept. 18). Last week new Premier Lerroux, a Bryanesque idealist, had held office for 21 days, had never dared to ask a vote of confidence from the Cortes and still dared not ask one. He knew that in a straight vote Man-With-No-Soul Azana and Snake Prieto would soon beat him. Wringing...
...elect new Deputies. For months Conservatives have been urging this course, predicting a Conservative landslide. To hold the election the President needed a "strong" Premier. He spent the week trying to find one, called in successively a wealthy young jurist, Felipe Sanchez Roman; crafty former Finance Minister Jose Manuel Pedregal; Dr. Gregorio Maranon, onetime physician to Alfonso XIII and a great advocate of birth control; Dean Posada of the Madrid Law School and finally-when all these had found the Premier's seat too hot- chose an old guard, conservative political boss, Don Diego Martinez Barrios...
From the ministerial bench of Spain's Cortes, chunky, gap-toothed Premier Manuel Azana has for two years led his Socialist Coalition Government in a rapid renovation of Spain's semifeudal society, steeped in piety, vised by the landowners. He was determined that no one should stop him until he had accomplished two things: 1) the substitution of non-sectarian schools for the Catholic Church schools that have taught Spaniards all they know for half a millennium; 2) the dispossession of the great grandee landowners. His great weapon is the Socialist labor unions of 1,000,000 well...
Hurricane and revolt again struck Cuba last week. Provisional President Carlos Manuel de Cespedes had left Havana for Sagua la Grande in north central Cuba to survey the storm damage and relief measures (see p. 18). Locum tenens at Havana was Col. Horacio' Ferrer, onetime Army surgeon and oculist who last month refused the Army's nomination as Provi- sional President. Early in the week, to deal with the restless Army, President de Cespedes made Col. Ferrer Secretary of War. Secretary Ferrer promptly barked : "The natural orgy that followed Machado's overthrow is over. The troops henceforth...