Word: niceto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Niceto Alcala Zamora y Torres. Provisional President of Spain, scratched his unshaven chin and shook his rumpled hair at a group of reporters last week...
Intense industry may be a novelty to Don Niceto, but government office is not. As a loyal Monarchist for years, he served as a deputy in the Cortes and as Undersecretary of the Interior. He was a member of two Cabinets: Minister of Public Works (1917-18), Minister of War (1922-23). Said Primo de Rivera before his coup d'etat...
...Niceto took this as a personal insult. He renounced the Dictatorship and King Alfonso to boot, pledged himself and his entire fortune to the Republican cause. Last December he was jailed as an instigator of the abortive Jaca revolution (TIME, Dec. 15). Released late in March, he became Provisional President of Spain three weeks later. World chancellories last week counted up the results of his first ten days in office...
Almost at the same time members of the Republican Cabinet of President Niceto Alcala Zamora were quietly taking over their new offices. Upstairs in the palace weeping Queen Victoria Eugenie, her daughters, her ladies in waiting, three of her four sons, packed furiously...