Word: marias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brooklyn, relatives gathered from Connecticut and Maryland to mourn the death of Mrs. Maria Maggio, 94. The coffin arrived, was banked . with flowers, finally opened. "Hey!" shouted Grandson Peter Lamarco. "that's not Grandma." Hospital apologized, admitted that Mrs. Maggio was still alive, that the corpse was that of Mrs. Maria Maglio...
...Mussolini took her small son Romano and baby daughter Anna Maria down by car from the Mussolini family farm at Forli to say good-by to papa at Bologna. There his special train from Rome paused for family kisses and heartily the Dictator bussed young Mrs. Vittorio Mussolini whose husband was en route to Hollywood (see p. 21). Later at Trento, where in his youth Mussolini was imprisoned, crowds roared "Viva II Duce!" and he shouted back "Viva Trento!" The train chuffed on, stopped for several hours in the mountains during the night to give the Dictator a better chance...
...original conspirators in the civil war, nor the first choice of its instigators as its military leader. In 1936, as soon as the Madrid Government announced that national elections had returned a thumping Leftist majority, plans for the rebellion were laid. Guiding spirit was the devious Catholic politician Jose Maria Gil Robles, now Rightist representative to Portugal. Leader of the rebellion was to be General Jose Sanjurjo. Francisco Franco, whom the republican Government had rusticated on the Canary Islands, was expected to play a part, but a minor one. On the word of the cocksure conspirators that the whole rebellion...
...Fray Junipero's anniversary, the cause was informally opened with mass celebrated at San Carlos Mission by its present pastor, Father Michael O'Connell. Father Augustine spoke on Fray Junipero's holy life, argued his sanctity. A wreath was laid on his refurbished grave by Excelentisima Maria Antonia Field, descendant of California grandees who was given her title in 1931 by King Alfonso XIII for her work in preserving Spanish California's historical buildings and records. Fray Junipero's cell, restored to look as it did when he prayed, read his missal and scourged himself...
Toward the end of the week, Basque officials packed their papers, fled to France. Sadly Basque Minister of Commerce Ramon Maria Aldasora admitted, "Santander cannot stand. It will fall, perhaps in a week, perhaps a month, depending upon the weather in the mountains...