Word: manuel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cornered the car of Dr. Ricardo Dolz, an anti-Machado leader and rector of the National University, and attempted to shoot him down. Their aim was poor. Blue with fright. Dr. Dolz escaped and hid in the Uruguayan Legation where he was promptly joined by another opposition leader, Carlos Manuel de la Cruz...
...this was caused when quiet, bespectacled Premier Manuel Azana of Spain came to town to hand white-toothed "President" Francisco Macia of Catalonia a copy of the statute granting home rule to Catalonia...
Crowds standing in the square before the high porticoed Generalidad burst into El Segredores, the once proscribed Catalonian anthem, roared loudest at the verse about cutting off the heads of the proud Castilians. Manuel Azana grinned good naturedly. Even the white geese in the Cathedral cloister honked their loudest...
Blessed Event (Warner), last of the cycle of colyumist pictures, is adapted from the play by Manuel Seff & Forrest Wilson which started the cycle when it was produced in Manhattan last year. Colyumists in the cinema are usually embroiled with gangsters and Colyumist Alvin Roberts (Lee Tracy) is no exception. He is sufficiently lacking in decency and a sense of news values to lead off his colyum with the information that an unmarried radio singer is about to have a child. When he learns that the child's father is a suburban racketeer it places him in the embarrassing...
...Government immediately sent troops to all parts of Spain. If General Sanjurjo's sentence were commuted there would be outbreaks by Communists and Syndicalists. If he were executed the Monarchists would rise. Clemency appeals began to pour in upon Premier Manuel Azana. Two were from the widow of Captain Garcia Hernandez and the mother of Captain Firmin Galan, both of whom were executed for attempting to overthrow King Alfonso. Premier Azana convened his cabinet to consider the decision...