Word: zamora
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Niceto Alcala Zamora y Torres. Provisional President of Spain, scratched his unshaven chin and shook his rumpled hair at a group of reporters last week...
President Alcala Zamora was at least working harder last week than he ever had worked in his life. He is an Andalusian lawyer, and in Andalusia businessmen and lawyers are accustomed to take life easily. As every visitor to Spain knows, one rises about 10 a. m., works till 1 p. m., then there is time out for lunch and siesta. At 3 p. m. shops open again, business proceeds until 7 or 8 P.M. One dines at 9:30. theatres start at 10:30; cafes are open all night. Few Spaniards of importance go to bed before three...
...Rome. Royal Spain was the only country that still paid state tribute to the Roman Catholic Church: between 5000,000 and 60,000,000 gold pesetas a year (about $12,000,000). The Church owns property of incalculable value, priests exert tremendous influence, not only spiritually. The Alcala Zamora Government, remembering Mexico's troubles, moved tactfully last week toward breaking the relations of Church and State...
Almost at the same time members of the Republican Cabinet of President Niceto Alcala Zamora were quietly taking over their new offices. Upstairs in the palace weeping Queen Victoria Eugenie, her daughters, her ladies in waiting, three of her four sons, packed furiously...
...lean, white-haired nobles gathered in the throne room to bid him farewell. Slowly the King passed down the line of Royal Halberdiers. Through a side gate in the garden he stepped, entered his racing car which was waiting at the curb and sped through the city. President Alcala Zamora in a second car accompanied him to the city limits. On a hill overlooking Madrid, Alfonso got out for a moment to look back at the city he was leaving...