Word: salazarism
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...dark a piece of presumptive skulduggery to be elucidated last week is the reputed presence in Portugal of Nazi insurrectionists from Germany. In the opinion of Portuguese secret police, these Nazis are deliberately seeking to upset the regime of Premier Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, who for seven years has run Portugal with such success as to give it one of the best records of any country during Depression. Given the fall of the Salazar regime, the way would be open to satisfy Adolf Hitler's land hunger by the passing into German hands, through purchase or otherwise, of Portuguese...
...open casinos at San Sebastian and Formentor. When both his casinos were raided, he asked for his money back. A parliamentary commission investigated his charges, reported last week with gravity that they had reason to believe that Lerroux's Nephew Aurelio, his onetime Minister of the Interior Rafael Salazar Alonso and half a dozen other Radicals had taken Straus's money. Old Lerroux, his white mustaches trembling with rage, replied that it was a fiendish Monarchist plot to split Spain's Centre coalition. Mexican Straus could not be found last week anywhere but, amid Monarchist chortles, Premier...
...started it. They objected to the National Government's interpretation of certain land laws. The strike lasted a day and then collapsed, but suddenly in Madrid, the word went out that the National Government was in serious danger. Reporters hurried to the office of Minister of the Interior Salazar Alonso, found him gravely dotting a huge map of Spain with colored pins: one color for Civil Guards, other colors for police reserves, airplane squadrons, cavalry, infantry, artillery. Pausing in his handiwork he told them a startling story. In Northern Asturias police had raided a secret cache of arms...
...Lisbon scholarly Professor Antonio de Oliveira Salazar has been the ''Brain Trust" of President Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona for six years. The President, a rough cavalry general with an intuitive knack of nipping revolutions, calls his regime pleasantly a "Dictatorship without a Dictator." Last July the Professor, long Finance Minister, was promoted to Premier. Together he and President Carmona have issued many queer but wise decrees. In more prosperous times they clapped terrific taxes on Portuguese industry, built up a strong Treasury reserve. Recently finding that bus competition was injuring the State Railways, the President was prompted...
...Denver, Col, Bishop Frank H. Rice performed a legal wedding ceremony for Maria Rita Salazar, 15, and Anacleto Ines, by pronouncing in their presence the word, "Married...