Word: ramone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jaunty "Abies and Georgies" who in devil-may-care brown berets are fighting the Spanish Rightists. The Friends have been collecting about $15,000 per month, last week launched a campaign to raise $50,000 per month from now on. Their spirit is that of Leftist Spanish Novelist Ramon J. Sender, who stepped off the Queen Mary last week in Manhattan to announce: "Even if Franco wins, this war in Spain will last throughout the century...
...March issue is introduced by a discussion of the agrarian reform in Mexico. Its author is Dr. Ramon Beteta, Mexico's energetic Under Secretary of Foreign Affairs. He presents the government policy of forced land redistribution, inaugurated in 1915, as a "restorative" development--"giving Mexico back to the Mexicans." Compared with the steady progress of the preceding enclosure movement in Spain as well as in Mexico, the peasant emancipation under Tsar Alexander II is bound to appear in a most favorable light...
...WITT AMONG THE REBELS-Ramon J. Sender-Houghton Mifflin...
...years ago, son of the commandant of the Ferrol naval base. In the tradition of a thoroughly militaristic family, elder Brother Nicolas went into the navy, second son Francisco went into the Infantry Academy at Toledo's Alcazar at the age of 14. In due time youngest brother Ramon Franco went into the aviation service. Shockheaded, wild-eyed Brother Ramon Franco was the first member of the family to make world headlines. In 1926, widely hailed as the "Spanish Lindbergh," he flew non-stop from Cadiz to Buenos Aires, later became air attache to the Spanish embassy at Washington...
Toward the end of the week, Basque officials packed their papers, fled to France. Sadly Basque Minister of Commerce Ramon Maria Aldasora admitted, "Santander cannot stand. It will fall, perhaps in a week, perhaps a month, depending upon the weather in the mountains...