Word: sampers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cause of the whole cancer was the general election of last November. To the horror of the ardently Republican Martinez Barrios, then Premier, the women of Spain, voting for the first time in history, piled up a terrific Conservative majority. Barrios fell. First Lerroux, then Samper became Premier. Month after month Socialists, Syndicalists, Communists have seen the country swing further and further to the Right. There is definite threat of a semi-Fascist dictatorship. Radicals of all complexions from the rose-pink of Manuel Azana to the black anarchism of innumerable hotheads joined for a final attempt at revolution...
Early last week the Cortes (parliament) reassembled and the Conservative-coalition Cabinet of Premier Samper fell. President Alcala Zamora asked idealistic Alejandro Lerroux to form another Government. He did, giving three seats to the reactionary Catholic Party which was largely responsible for Samper's fall...
...Tugging at his unruly hair, scratching at his stubbly chin, President Alcala Zamora attempted to find a Premier. The choice of either reactionary Catholic Leader Gil Robles or shrewd, radical Manuel Azana might easily start a civil war. Finally he picked a political dummy for Alejandro Lerroux named Ricardo Samper Ibanez, an owlish, spectacled lawyer from Valencia and Lerroux's onetime Minister of Industry & Commerce. All but three of the Lerroux Cabinet were reappointed. Most notable omission was cultivated dome-browed Salvador de Madariaga, trilingual veteran of dozens of League conferences at Geneva...