Word: urquijo
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...major political offenders, was kidnaped in broad daylight. The general was grabbed by unidentified gunmen in front of his apartment house, bundled into his Mercedes and whisked away into captivity. The operation was almost identical to the abduction Dec. 11 of right-wing Industrialist Antonio Maria de Oriol y Urquijo, president of an advisory council to Spain's head of state. Oriol's kidnaping, still unsolved, was claimed by GRAPO, which is demanding amnesty for the remaining political prisoners in return for Oriol's freedom. Sure enough, GRAPO also identified itself as the grabber of Villaescusa...
...victory was doubly impressive, since the referendum came four days after the kidnaping of Antonìo Maria Orìol y Urquijo, 63, an influential Basque financier who, as chief of the Council of State, is Spain's fourth-ranking official. Oriol was taken from his downtown Madrid office by gunmen from a leftist organization known as G.R.A.P.O. (First of October Anti-Fascist Resistance Group), who at first demanded the release of 15, then all political prisoners from Spanish jails...
Barcelona had definitely become too hot at last for two grandees of Spain, the Marquis de Urquijo and the Duke of Saragossa, who found themselves in Madrid on the day the war began, have since been living expensively but safely in embassy and consular premises of the French Popular Front Government. Into Barcelona harbor suddenly steamed last week two French warships, the Epervier and La Palme. These took off the Marquis de Urquijo, the Duke of Saragossa and 510 other Spanish Rightists, many robust young men of aristocratic Spanish families who appear to have been living like fighting cocks, despite...
...Madrid Stock Exchange accompanied by two noblemen and that such conduct was "imprudent and inexplicable." Since then the Dictator has refused challenges to duel by the noblemen concerned, Conde de Cemira and the Duque de Almodovar, and has been cut by such great ladies as the Marquesa de Urquijo and the Duquesa de Montellano, both intimate friends of jilted Señorita Mercedes de Castellanos...
Hitherto foreign directors of major U. S. corporations have represented foreign investment in the U. S. These Spaniards signify the opposite: U. S. interests in foreign countries. When the Marques de Urquijo's heir came to the U. S. to learn banking, reporters captioned him as "Friend of J. P. Mor-gan." The youth was not, in fact, on chitchatting terms with Mr. Morgan; it was merely that the House of Morgan, in the I. T. & T. and other affairs, was associated with the House of Urquijo. Just as Mr. Morgan had gone in his youth to London, then...