Word: varela
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Falangistas intended to kill War Minister General José Varela, twice winner of Spain's Grand Laureled Cross of St. Ferdinand, who relieved the siege of the Alcazar in Spain's preview of World War II. The grenade killed four people, but not General Varela. He demanded Serrano's scalp and the execution of the Falangistas involved. (A Madrid dispatch broadcast from Germany last week reported that one Juan José Dominguez was executed "for throwing hand grenades...
Disaster. A previously inept politico, Franco demonstrated that the stress & strain of being dictator of a gaunt, proud land still in a state of civil war had taught him a few lessons. He canned both General Varela and Serrano in a Cabinet shakeup that became an international sensation...
...boat nailed the 5,785-ton Montevideo 300 miles from Bermuda. Of her crew of 49, two were known dead, 13 missing. Her master was Captain José Rodríguez Varela, chairman of the committee which had denied the wounded Admiral Graf Spee more than 24 hours in Montevideo (TIME. Dec. 25. 1939). He had said: "The Germans will never forgive me for this...
...sale in Manhattan "at a substantial reduction from their true worth" went the cobwebbed contents of the wine cellars of Inisfada, Long Island estate of the late Papal Duchess Genevieve Garvan Brady Macaulay. Items: 1901 Belmont Bourbon, 100 proof (case: $125); 1911 Veuve Clicquot champagne (case: $84); Jiminez Varela, Oloroso 1840 sherry (case: $58); Berry Bros. Prince's Port, 50 years in wood, 34 years in bottle (case: $48); Pre-Expulsion Green Chartreuse, 4 litres only (bottle: $1,25).* Burke's Irish Whiskey, 90 proof, believed laid down in 1901 (case...