Word: prieto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from indifferent about the election results was the small but tightly-knit Social Democrat Party which led the opposition to President Cárdenas. Thundered Social Democrat Leader Judge Prieto Laurens: "The official party as usual used every means to assure its triumph. . . . A majority of the voting booths were placed in homes of Government party leaders and a mere 10% of the eligible voters was allowed to ballot...
...Labor, most potent Socialist-Communist labor group, threw in its lot with the new Government and the menace of Anarcho-Syndicalists, largely industrial workers, shrank proportionately. His other and bigger job-winning the war- he tackled by giving the strongest politician on the Leftist side, onetime Bilbao newsboy Indalecio Prieto, sole charge of the War, Navy, Air and Munitions Ministries. For the first time in the Civil War, all the reins of defense and attack were thus in the hands of one man. Spunky General Jose Miaja ("The Savior of Madrid") reassumed civil and military control of the capitol after...
...Valencia up spoke the Air & Marine Minister of the Largo Caballero Cabinet, enormous Indalecio Prieto: "I surprised many and aroused the indignation of many others at the beginning of the war by predicting the fight would be long and hard. Everyone seemed to believe it would be a question of two or three weeks. I was right. And I believe it again safe to say that the conflict will extend at least through December, January and February and enter a far more intensive stage than the present battle for Madrid...
...actually at its last gasp and the President's wife had fled to the seaport of Alicante, haven for refugees from Madrid. There she was taking care of child victims of Spain's civil war with the help of the two daughters of enormous Socialist Indalecio Prieto, Minister of Air and Marine. Also in Alicante, but as prisoners of the Radical Madrid Government, were Fascist Leaders José Antonio Primo de Rivera and his brother Miguel, wild-eyed sons of Spain's late Dictator. The Berlin Government was so concerned last week about...
...Victory is ours!" Adopting the tactic of Lenin and Trotsky who made a point of telling their followers the worst during the Russian Revolution, Premier Largo Caballero and his Cabinet's strong man Air and Marine Minister Indalecio Prieto splashed out in Madrid papers the grim fact that in Madrid there were no more potatoes, fresh eggs or butter, scant meat or sugar and hardly any milk or olive oil. To these challenges the proletariat rose as 20,000 enlisted to fight as Red Militiamen-in a day and crowds kept milling around the Spanish Lenin's office...