Word: nacion
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...stuttering out answers to police, every estancia gate and fence in rich Buenos Aires province was carefully watched. If Father Pereyra Iraola is no such popular hero as Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Senator Santamarina is nevertheless politically potent, and his brother Enrique, who heads the great Banco de la Nacion, is extremely rich. Also, a great-uncle of the kidnapped child is Carlos M. Noel, president of Argentina's Chamber of Deputies...
...Seville mobs burned monarchists' homes, freed Communists and Syndicalists from jail, mobbed royalist newspaper offices. As prisoners left the jail, others- participants in the revolt-went in. Republican demonstrations were staged in Cordoba, Valencia, Santander, Barcelona. In Madrid the conservative papers A. B. C., Informaciones, El Debate and Nacion were suspended. Casualties of the revolt: 1,000 arrested, 90 wounded, ten killed, including one Nicanor Puerto who committed suicide. The Government promised General Sanjurjo would not be executed "unless the law left no alternative." Disloyal Civil Guards were stripped of their epaulets. President Alcala Zamora distributed 500,000 pesetas...
...Hombre Has Resigned!" When big news breaks in Buenos Aires her potent newsorgans La Prensa and La Nacion explode upon their roofs tremendous bombs-which may mean anything. As explosion after explosion tore the air last week. thousands of people rushed joyously into the streets, shouting as they embraced each other: "El Hombre has resigned...
...Madrid's official La Nacion, His Excellency indulged in further fretfulness...
...Same Age." The morning after Mr. Hoover had left Buenos Aires, La Nacion (potent daily) printed an exclusive and somewhat effusive interview with him. Some new Hooverisms...