Word: manuel
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...working his large jaw with its widely-spaced teeth up and down in the National Assembly last week, Provisional President, Premier & War Minister Manuel Azana made himself Dictator of Spain...
...Lerroux cancelled an appointment to go to Geneva. He was to have presided over the League Council while it wrestled with China & Japan (see p. 20). Instead Senor Lerroux leaped with President Alcala Zamora to the aid of Mother Church. Also for Mother Church battled at first War Minister Manuel Azana-but not for long...
Pealing his bell, which he pounds on his desk and smashes when annoyed, Speaker Besteiro called the exhausted Assembly to order. Had anyone any objection, he asked, to the party leader's choice of War Minister Manuel Azana to be Provisional President and Premier? No one had the slightest objection. Dead tired Deputies rested their raw throats, their heaving lungs. Amid utter silence Spain's new Chief Executive was chosen unanimously (the 50 pious clericals remaining absent). Up the steps of the Assembly Tribune at once climbed President Azana, brisk and stern. Jerking a paper from his waistcoat...
Provisional President, Premier and Minister of War-Manuel Azana...
...opposing candidates were Arturo Alessnndri, a former President of Chile and Manuel Hidalgo, Communist. Chilean hard times were expected to bring Communist Hidalgo many votes, but his rumored connection with the ineffectual Chilean naval mutiny lost him much popular sympathy. Candidate Alessandri had put through (when President) Chile's broad labor laws, workmen nocked...