Word: posada
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...election the President needed a "strong" Premier. He spent the week trying to find one, called in successively a wealthy young jurist, Felipe Sanchez Roman; crafty former Finance Minister Jose Manuel Pedregal; Dr. Gregorio Maranon, onetime physician to Alfonso XIII and a great advocate of birth control; Dean Posada of the Madrid Law School and finally-when all these had found the Premier's seat too hot- chose an old guard, conservative political boss, Don Diego Martinez Barrios...