Word: quiroga
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...gaucho dances at dusk in orange groves or tiled patios, his dames of the epoch of Rosas gossiping in red dresses on crimson sofas in scarlet damask rooms, his nocturnes of the old market or the environs of Malvin, his two wonderful paintings of the murder of Facundo Quiroga on the diligence, and above all the strange series of Negro customs, candombe dancers, wakes, the mongrels chasing the funerals on foot, the parades and festivals are an inexhaustible pageant of a rich past, the best of which are splendidly painted...
...noon that day the weak, confused Government of Left Republican Santiago Casares Quiroga issued a communiqué condemning a revolt that it admitted had broken out in Spanish Morocco, but protesting that "nobody, absolutely nobody had taken part in this absurd scheme" in Spain proper. But before the week was out Premier Casares Quiroga's "nobody" had grown to a formidable list of somebodies, including Spain's best generals, 75% of the Spanish Army of 120,000 officers and men, many devout Catholic communicants, an overwhelming majority of the numerous Roman Catholic clergy, former noblemen and landowners, Fascists...
...Manuel Goded, General Francisco Franco. General Sanjurjo was killed in an airplane crash near Lisbon, General Goded was captured, imprisoned and executed when he failed to take Barcelona. No. 3 of the original slate - General Franco - became head of the Rightist Army. Meanwhile, in turbulent Leftist Madrid, Premier Casares Quiroga stepped down, to be succeeded, in a day of whirlwind Cabinet shiftings, first by the now-forgotten Diego Martinez Barrio, then by Republican José Giral Pereira...
Premier Santiago Casares Quiroga promptly suspended Parliament for eight days, and all the Monarchist Deputies swore never to return. Unwisely the Government refused to allow Calvo's body to lie in state anywhere, barred a mob of 30,000 Rightists from the cemetery where he was being buried. When the crowd gave the Fascist shout, "Up Spain!" Assault Guardsmen fired, killed five, wounded three. Forehanded, President Manuel Azaña ordered the Army and Civil Guards mobilized in quarters, ordered a roundup of Rightist leaders, jammed them into jails. Talkative Rightists had begun telling about a great Army revolt...
Interpreting the revolt as a vote of noconfidence. Premier Casares Quiroga resigned. President Azaña chose a fellow-member of the Left Centre, President of the Cortes Diego Martinez-Barrio, who in turn resigned to make way for another Left Centrist José Giralt Pereira. distinguished scientist. Madrid University's Chancellor and old friend...