Word: rafael
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Premier Largo Caballero felt that General Miaja had better concentrate on fighting the Rightists. In less than 24 hours a municipal council of 33 civilian antifascists was formed to administer Madrid, which thus again reverted to civilian rule. Elected to head the new Municipal Council was 45-year-old Rafael Henche de la Plata, onetime head of a bakers' union, a prominent Socialist politician in Madrid for the last 20 years. By week's end Civilian Boss Henche had already taken over the huge task of feeding and disciplining Madrid's besieged million...
Motoring near San Rafael, about 14 mi. north of San Francisco one day last summer, one Beryle Shinn had a puncture, decided to stop for picnic lunch on a nearby grassy bluff. Mr. Shinn squatted, found himself on a rock, lifted it, saw a dingy piece of metal. He rubbed off the dirt, managed to decipher the word "Drake," took his find to University of California's History Professor Herbert E. Bolton. Last week the historian announced himself satisfied that it was indeed the claim plate posted by Drake 357 years ago. Sold to the California Historical Society...
Seeking Divorce. Mrs. Ellen Wilson McAdoo de Onate, 21, daughter of Cali fornia's Senator William Gibbs McAdoo, granddaughter of Woodrow Wilson; from Rafael Lopez de Onate, 40, Philippine-born cinemactor with whom she eloped in 1934; in Los Angeles. Grounds: nonsupport...
England's popular new stamp does not clearly establish precedent. In February 1935 the Dominican Republic issued a photostamp of her Dictator-President Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina at the same time that she changed the name of her capital city from Santo Domingo to Trujillo...
...bloody, exhausting, three-year Gran Chaco War ended eleven months ago. The victorious Paraguayan officers led by War Hero Colonel Rafael Franco seized the Paraguayan Government last February (TIME, March 2). Last week the losing Bolivian officers, led by Lieut. Colonel German Busch, seized the Bolivian Government in La Paz without firing a shot, kicked out the Army stooge they had put in six months before the War ended, pacific, beet-nosed President José Luis Tejada Sorzana...