Word: niceto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Niceto Alcala Zamora had no connection last week with either Spanish Rightists or Spanish Leftists, except that the latter have his two sons. "The Government of Valencia has thus pointed a contraband dagger at my heart by taking from me hostages beyond all price," wrote Alcala Zamora in the Journal de Geneve. "An aching heart has steeled itself by a supreme effort to recover the fullness of its liberty, the liberty of the pen and the liberty of action-action faithful to my convictions as a patriotic Republican...
Objective editors noted with keen interest last week that Niceto Alcala. Zamora y Torres, who was the Republican President of Spain up to less than a year ago and today earns his living as a journalist in France, has now contributed to the Swiss Journal de Geneve his historic recollections of how things went in Madrid under the premiership of Manuel Azana who today is the Leftist Government's President of Spain...
...Niceto Alcala Zamora was recently forced to resign as President of (1 Spain, 2 Portugal, 3 Brazil, 4 Cuba, 5 Mexico...
...election was a second President of the Second Spanish Republic to replace kindly old Niceto Alcalá ("Father of the Republic") Zamora, brutally booted out of office last month by the Cortes. The new President was to be picked by the Parliamentary Deputies and an equal number of specially elected delegates sitting to gether in Madrid. Above partisan politics, he would have considerably more prestige and less power than the Premier. Unexpectedly, Premier Azaña let it be known that he would accept the Presidency...
Forehanded Niceto Alcala Zamora had already closed his Presidential Palace desk, gone home where he refused to receive the commission sent to tell him the bad news. Said he: "I am nobody's servant." Automatically elevated to the Provisional Presidency was another Left Republican, Diego Martinez-Barrios, onetime linotype operator, onetime Premier and Premier Manuel Azaña's prot...