Word: veragua
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Christopher Columbus' grandson was made a duke by Roman Emperor Charles V, who was also King of Spain. Last week the Red Militia of Madrid got their hands on Don Cristobal Colon y Aguilera, 14th Duke of Veragua, 16th in descent from the Discoverer of America and breeder on his estates of some of the best fighting bulls in Spain. In 1893 the Duke, then a lad in short pants, was taken to see Chicago's Columbian Exposition. He never again visited the U. S. and refusing a U. S. offer of $428,000 for relics...
From Havana, the Pan-American Columbus Society petitioned all the governments of the Western Hemisphere to offer protection in Madrid during the Spanish rebellion to Don Cristobal Colon, Duke of Veragua, direct descendant of Christopher Columbus...
Panama. President Ricardo Alfaro sighed with relief when a timely police raid netted 40 rifles and a case of ammunition in the home of Chief of Police Alejandro Ramos of Los Santos Province, bud-nipping a revolution in Los Santos and Veragua Provinces...