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...Speaker Martinez Barrio told the deputies that they were witnessing a historic meeting, that they were "writing a page of honor for the future Spanish fatherland." Historically minded Loyalists took heart by remembering that another Cortes had met in Cadiz in March 1812, in even more desperate circumstances. At that time Napoleon had invaded Spain and had set his brother Joseph on the throne at Madrid, "Loyalist" Spain had been reduced to only a small area north of Cadiz and isolated cities, far less than the approximately 50,000 square miles the Government still holds. Yet by 1814 the "Loyalists...
Loyalists claimed that General Martinez Anido. Insurgent Minister for Public Order, had been stabbed. Rightist sources said he had influenza. At any rate he died. At 9 p.m. curfew was ordered in the Insurgent capital...
Died. General Severiano Martinez Anido, 76, "The White Terror," Minister for Public Order in Generalissimo Franco's Spain; in Valladolid (see p. 16). General Anido had been mentioned for the post of dictator if the Rebels should...
When Ambassador Pedro Martinez Fraga squired him to the White House. Boss Batista tactfully changed his uniform and spurs for a sporty grey suit and blue fedora. Franklin Roosevelt talked to him half an hour about Cuba. Afterward, Batista bubbled: "I was able to ascertain the enormous goodness in the President's character...
...accused were Fred G. Healy, whom Harry Hopkins last month quietly removed as New Mexico's WPAdministrator; an Internal Revenue man; the head of the State Drivers License Bureau; the wife and brother of Albuquerque's postmaster; the police chief of Las Vegas and his brother; Joe Martinez, secretary to Senator Chavez, the New Dealer whom Jim Farley got appointed after Senator Bronson Cutting was killed in an air crash. Swart, Spanish-blooded poor-but-proud Senator Dennis Chavez, who got credit for most of the Federal funds obtained for New Mexico, also beheld four of his close...