Word: ndez
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. El Salvador, the smallest, most densely populated of the Central American countries, has 80% of her soil under cultivation, is a one-crop country (coffee). In its capital, San Salvador, flourish 100,000 and the President, His Excellency General Maximiliano Hernández Martinez...
...Rightist Generalissimo Francisco Franco, without waiting to be granted the right to blockade, one of the "belligerent rights" now being hashed over in London (see col. 1), was reported last week planning to establish a naval blockade of the Leftist coast, appointed Vice Admiral Francisco Moreno Fernández to be Commander in Chief of Rightist naval forces in Majorca. This made correspondents unquenchably curious to visit the island of Majorca, often rumored to be in Italian hands...
...facts came out because new Leftist Premier Juan Negrin has broken with the Largo Caballero Leftists, is only too glad to have "The Spanish Lenin" exposed. According to Minister of Education Jesus Hernández, the Largo Caballero Cabinet on Nov. 6, when Madrid's fall seemed imminent, left a note with the janitor of their headquarters and quietly skipped to Valencia. That evening famed General José Miaja, military defender of Madrid, happened to come around to see Premier Largo Caballero, was told by the janitor: "I have a letter for you, but my orders are that...
...Salvador one day last week to celebrate Independence Day, 116th anniversary of the little nation's liberation from Spain. Crowning the day's ceremonies was the bestowal by the Chamber of Deputies on the curly head of El Salvador's Dictator, President General Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, the high-sounding title, "Benefactor of the Nation...
...nine in the morning, but was checked for four hours by 26 machine-guns installed on a church roof and belfry, which vomited livid death into the front ranks of the Popular Frontists as they entered the main square. Shortly after noon two Anarchists, Amadeo Salvan and Fernández Ubarri, loaded themselves with sacks of dynamite weighing 40 lbs. each, and made a dash for the church, each with a split fuse held in one hand and a lighted cigaret in the other. Fernandez Ubarri was hit, for he was seen to fall twice; nevertheless he crawled...