Word: republican
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ohio's Republican Representative Thomas A. Jenkins (for himself): The majority report is "unmistakable proof of a desire to withhold true facts. ... It leaves the Tennessee Valley Authority just as it found...
These tactics worked admirably. Last week two Republican Senators sponsored Mr. Campbell's bill, all but seven Senate Republicans voted for it. So did all but two Democrats, after talking it over with Governor Culbert Olson. Happy Mr. Campbell counted on favorable action by the Assembly, Governor Olson and the U. S. lenders without whom the plan cannot work. If all cooperate, Cooperator Campbell's first community for balanced farmers, carpenters, barbers, etc. will rise at Bellflower, about 20 miles south of Los Angeles...
...city which had once been the heart of Republican resistance soon echoed with cries of Arriba España! Viva Franco! The clenched fist became the upraised arm. Some 40,000 secret Fascist sympathizers -members of the Fifth Column-dropped their Republican disguise, took over the city even before the first of Franco's troops had crossed the Manzanares River and taken actual possession of Madrid. Out of hiding in foreign embassies and legations came hundreds of Franco partisans...
Among those who saw the last of Republican Madrid was Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., 23-year-old son of the U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. He had gone to Loyalist Spain on a British battleship, then to Madrid on a sightseeing tour. He had put up at the spacious U. S. Embassy as the guest of Francisco Ugarte, the Embassy's caretaker. Marveled young Mr. Kennedy at Madrid's fall: "Did you ever see anything like it?" After attending Palm Sunday Mass, he went to Burgos, planned to leave Spain soon...
Pitifully few escaped. Old General José Miaja, Madrid's famed defender, flew with his staff from Valencia to Oran, Algeria. There he predicted that Republican rule would return to Spain "sooner than one might expect." Julián Besteiro remained in Madrid, was arrested, taken to Burgos and was expected to face a military trial early this week. Colonel Casado, chief figure in ousting the civil government of Dr. Juan Negrin from power four weeks ago, escaped to Marseille aboard a British ship. As his last official act he had issued a bogus proclamation to Communist leaders...