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...whence he had come, on a special train bearing 38 Senators and a large delegation from the House. The train also carried all 4,000 floral offerings, including wreaths from the Democratic National Committee and the Jefferson Islands Club, from Mrs. James Roosevelt, mother of the President, from President Manuel Quezon of the Philippines, from Japanese Ambassador Hirosi Saito...
...half-staff early last week. This marked the first anniversary of the assassination in Madrid last year of Rightist Martyr No. i, onetime Finance Minister Jose Calvo Sotelo who was taken-for-a-ride by uniformed guards of the Madrid Government. Its head then as now was President Don Manuel Azana who last week was in Valencia. Few days after the Rightists mourned Calvo Sotelo, they celebrated with bullfights and fiestas last week the day on which they rose against Republicans, Socialists, Anarchists and Communists of Spain. Last week British-owned ore mines near Bilbao (now Rightist) had taken from...
There it was discovered that the assaulter was no ordinary brawler but Manuel Oyon, a onetime Venezuelan judge. The assaulted was General Jorge Garcia, onetime warden of Caracas' infamous Rotunda prison where the late Dictator Juan Vicente ("El Benemerito") Gómez kept Manuel Oyon and many another political prisoner. "He used to torture me!" cried Manuel Oyon. "The mere admission that he served as warden of the Rotunda is sufficient proof," declared his lawyer. While the court tried to decide what to do with Manuel Oyon, who after his release from prison was deported by the present Venezuelan...
Only outright "gangsters and terrorists" were excluded from the bill. This provoked an ironical outburst from Representative Manuel Penabas and several other members of the anti-Batista bloc in the lower house, who claimed that they were being threatened by the Boss's musclemen. Cried Representative Penabas: "We are armed for any eventuality...
...Died. Manuel C. Tellez, 52, onetime (1925-31) Mexican Ambassador to the U. S., later (1934) Minister to Italy, one-time newshawk; of heart disease; in Mexico City...