Word: navarra
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weeks of the year the capital of Navarra is a sleepy little Spanish city where half-naked children play in the narrow streets and café waiters doze under the arcades of the broad, quiet Plaza de la Constitucíon. But in the second week of July, Pamplona becomes bull-mad, its streets and plaza are full of snuffing, rushing bulls. Hotels and rooming houses overflow with visitors from Madrid, Bilbao, San Sebastian, with tourists from St. Jean-de-Luz, Biarritz and Paris. Peasants from miles around sleep in wagons, in the fields, or do not sleep...
Illegal opposition, the President said, centred in the radically syndicalist East and reactionary Catholic Northeast. Certainly Catholic Navarra and the Basque Provinces seethed with discontent last week at the disestablishment of Mother Church (TIME, Oct. 26). In Barcelona, the President said, a movement was on foot to declare a "sudden general strike." Hereafter any strike begun without at least eight days notice will be suppressed by the Government as "revolutionary...
Three Things Happened: 1) The National Assembly rammed into the Constitution by a vote of 178 to 59 Article XXIV expelling the Jesuits and barring education under Catholic auspices;* 2) President Alcala Zamora resigned in protest and 50 pious Basque and Navarra Deputies marched out of the National Assembly shouting "Long live Christ the King!"; 3) Parliamentary leaders gathered jabbering in the lobby, decided that War Minister Azana ought to be President, told Speaker Julian ("Bell Smasher") Besteiro of their decision...