Word: maura
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...side Generalissimo Franco, umpire of the showdown, would favor. It would suit the purposes of the old-time generals to have the monarchy restored; the Falangists are against restoration. Some indication that the Generalissimo, once a stanch Monarchist, was favoring restoration came in the report that the Duke of Maura, now living in Portugal, has been dispatched by General Franco to see former King Alfonso XIII. Alfonso fortnight ago held a "conference" of Spanish Monarchists at Lausanne, Switzerland. It has long been thought that in case of a restoration Alfonso's 26-year-old son, Prince Juan, rather than...
...supplies in a brief post-War revolution and whose friend was now Bardichinov, who had been a banker in Russia. When Primo de Rivera is in power in Spain they are joined by a gentle anarchist named Alvarez; when Rivera falls, Alvarez disappears, replaced by the courtly Spanish Prince Maura. When Mussolini takes power in Italy a cultivated minister of finance appears with his beautiful daughter. At first the refugees plot and conspire, then gradually make friends until political lions and lambs are reconciled by loneliness...
...boss. Bang-bang-bang went the mine guards' guns. Tear gas enveloped the strikers. One guard shot another guard's arm off by mistake. Fifteen strikers were dropped by bullets, their names a typical roster of U. S. mine labor: Louis Kromer, Steve Hrosky, George Ely, Anton Maura, Walter Ordorsky, Paul Popson, Mason Robert, George Hroska, Joe Goletz, Mike Budman, James Shannon, George Illeg, Vincent Stunga, Joseph Kromer. One fell on the railroad track, was barely dragged to safety before an oncoming freight train. For the shootings a mine boss and six guards were clapped into jail...
...Japan and Greece not even Liberia and Labrador would appear to have less in common. Yet one day last week several smiling members of the Japanese Legation in Athens joined several swart Greek Cabinet Ministers on a little steamer and rolled out to the Ionian island of Leucadia (Santa Maura) to honor a common pride: the late exotic Lafcadio Hearn...
...accuse him," shouted Minister Maura, "of an alliance with the Communists* in an attempt to subvert the army until the officers had to sleep in the Tablada Airdrome in Seville with revolvers under their pillows...