Word: riveras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...assert themselves in the face of such reverses, the Radical authorities last week executed at Valencia the No. 1 Spanish Fascist, Don Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, Marques d'Estella, son of the late Spanish Dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera. Meanwhile, fighting at Madrid, the No. 1 Spanish Anarchist, famed General Buenaventura Durruti, was killed...
Into the still unopened Hotel Reforma, soon to be one of Mexico City's swankest, burst swart, baggy-breeched Diego de Rivera at the head of a group of 20 gesticulating young men. Before they could commit much of a nuisance, alarmed neighbors summoned police who questioned Rivera and his loudest companions, found that the group was fortified with not one but five revolvers...
Probably the ablest, certainly the best known living fresco painter is paunchy Diego Rivera, twice a member of the Communist Party, once expelled for disobedience. Because the owner of the Hotel Reforma, Alberto J. Pani, onetime Mexico's Secretary of Finance, was a friend, Artist Rivera agreed to decorate his hotel for 4,000 pesos, just enough to pay his expenses...
...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 José's welfare that a German officer was sent to his cell each night to get the Fascist leader's signature as proof that...
...once Finance Minister under Dictator Primo de Rivera and Alfonso XIII, followed his King into exile, returned to Spain under an amnesty of the Republic. He was taken from his home and butchered by uniformed members of the Government's own Assault Guards. Though these assassins admittedly acted without President Azana's knowledge, their crime showed that the most violent Left terrorism was now operating in the shadow of the Government itself. In Right opinion, the Republic had ceased to uphold republican order or republican rights and the first broadside issued by forces of the Revolution said they...