Word: maria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...north. There armies of 15,000 Loyalists under General Carlos Bernal and 20,000 Fascists under able General Emilio Mola sparred cautiously for the battle that may end the war. Surprise of the week was verification of the astounding story that when Spain's devious José Maria Gil Robles, Catholic reactionary, was Minister of War ten months ago, he and Fascist Generals Franco and Mola prepared for the present civil war by digging secret gun emplacements all along the Guadarrama ridge. Fortunately for Spain's Leftist Government, loyal officers knew where most of them were...
Born. To Don Juan Carlos, Prince of Asturias, 23, youngest living son of Spain's onetime King Alfonso XIII; and Princess Maria Mercedes of Bourbon-Sicily, 25; an 8-lb. daughter; in Cannes, France. Name: Maria del Pilar...
Next day two Socialists were killed and four wounded by machine-gun bullets from a speeding car presumptively Fascist. They were avenged by catching a young Fascist, Jose Maria Sanchez, stripping him naked, tying him to a tree, savagely demolishing his head with bullets. In Galicia a plebiscite revealed that 85% of the voters are so disgusted with the wavering bourgeois-radical Madrid Cabinet that they demand self-rule for Galicia...
...family which Di Maggio used to help support by selling newspapers after school now, because he sends home almost his whole salary from the Yankees, lives in considerably more comfort. They own a three-family house above San Francisco's fishing wharfs. Blackhaired Maria Di Maggio, who gave her favorite brother a signet ring when he left home, keeps scrapbooks which are extensive because San Francisco sportswriters play up Di Maggio for the city's 60,000 Italians. There are three other sisters and four brothers of whom the oldest, Tom, like greying Joseph Di Maggio...
...Naples was ruled by Maria Carolina, daughter of Maria Theresa of Austria, sister of Marie Antoinette who had died on the guillotine only five years before. Carolina's husband, King Ferdinand, was a lazy, ineffectual, long-nosed barbarian whose concept of statesmanship was simply to keep out of trouble and throw coins to any crowd of the lower classes. Carolina's life was dominated by her hatred and fear of the French Republic, by her determination to lead Naples in a holy war against France. She was encouraged in this suicidal plan by the English, particularly by Lady...