Word: martyres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Flags all over Rightist Spain went to 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...
...linking him with French Public Scandal No. 1-I'Affaire Stavisky (TiME, Jan. 15, 1934, et seq.). Diving into complete retirement for six months, M. Chautemps, when he cautiously emerged, found many people thought the Stavisky Scandal had been so overdone that they actually regarded him as a martyr to evil tongues. Suave, tactful and poker-faced, Premier Chautemps at 52 can look back upon a career which, until he entered politics, ran with exceptional smoothness in the groove of barrister. Brilliant, he first was called to the bar at the age of 19. Son of an established Liberal...
...Lamont, thanks! TIME now considers the question of where Martyr Reed was buried authoritatively settled once & for all.-ED. Bridges Corrected...
...abducted her, bound her, released her when she promised to warn Mr. Rockefeller to "stop being a great lover." Under further questioning, Nurse Montgomery admitted that the whole tale was a hoax to renew Mr. Prentice's interest in her. "I wanted to be a martyr," confessed she. "Some woman called me and told me he was going with another girl." "Well, I'm surprised," said John Rockefeller Prentice...
...accent, that Al Smith was politically crucified. Certainly the whispering campaign against him on this ground and the absurd charge, openly cartooned by such sheets as the KKKlannish Fellowship Forum (see cut), that he would "set up the Pope in the White House," earned for Al Smith a Catholic martyr's crown. Year after his defeat he received the University of Notre Dame's Laetare-Medal, an award seldom given a politician and the highest honor the Catholic Church in the U. S. can bestow upon a Catholic layman. At Castel Gandolfo last week arrived Al Smith...