Word: zamora
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week "The Father of the Second Spanish Republic," eloquent, softhearted President Niceto Alcalà Zamora y Torres, 58, was brazenly voted out of office, 238-to-5, by the Spanish Cortes (Parliament...
...ranked high among samples of the ingratitude of republics. It had been Zamora in 1931 who demanded King Alfonso XIII's abdication and proclaimed the Republic. Since then, during Spain's wild swings from Left to Right to Left in last February's general elections, President Zamora, a pious Catholic, has stayed in the unlovable middle. So outraged was he by his suspicion that his old friend Manuel Azaña, now Premier, had taken part in the Left parties' October 1934 revolt that he refused to speak to Azaña. On the other hand...
Grounds were highly specious. The Republic's constitution allows the President to dissolve two Parliaments, the second dissolution being subject to review by the third Parliament. If the Cortes decides that the second dissolution was "unnecessary," the President must resign. The Leftists counted as No. 1 President Zamora's routine dissolution of the Republic's constituent assembly (not strictly a Parliament), as No. 2 last January's dissolution of the Cortes...
...burned some 17 churches, eleven convents, 33 Rightist political clubs, ten newspaper plants and 22 miscellaneous buildings. Killed: 51. Wounded: 194. In a fog of censorship and an official "state of alarm," a wild rumor spread that land-hungry peasants had overrun the estates of President Niceto Alcalá Zamora and his 78-year-old spinster aunt...
...seats, and the "Right" 220, there was no assurance that a vote of confidence could be won by the bilious Left Republican who suddenly found himself again Premier, sickly-green-complexioned Don Manuel Azaña. The President of the Republic, uneasy old Don Niceto Alcála Zamora, was not in the least sure that the unexpected ballot victory of the Left might not enflame the Right's scheming would-be Dictator, Don Jose Maria Gil Robles, to attempt a coup d'etat...