Word: zamora
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days later, the Vice President decided he had been called. It was the coldest day of the year: South Texas hunters knew deer would be running by the next dawn. While Lucas Zamora, the Mexican yard man, hung precariously in the tops of the live oaks, hacking out deadwood, and "Bertie," the cook, bustled about the kitchen "fixin' company dinner"; while Mrs. Ettie Garner tended her correspondence in the little office-house in the back yard; in the Garner garage Uvalde's garageman, Ross Brumfield, for 20 years the "Boss's" hunting companion, stowed away hunting gear...
...President Niceto Alcala Zamora had no connection last week with either Spanish Rightists or Spanish Leftists, except that the latter have his two sons. "The Government of Valencia has thus pointed a contraband dagger at my heart by taking from me hostages beyond all price," wrote Alcala Zamora in the Journal de Geneve. "An aching heart has steeled itself by a supreme effort to recover the fullness of its liberty, the liberty of the pen and the liberty of action-action faithful to my convictions as a patriotic Republican...
Objective editors noted with keen interest last week that Niceto Alcala. Zamora y Torres, who was the Republican President of Spain up to less than a year ago and today earns his living as a journalist in France, has now contributed to the Swiss Journal de Geneve his historic recollections of how things went in Madrid under the premiership of Manuel Azana who today is the Leftist Government's President of Spain...
...Government gave reign to the mob, tools in the hands of their leaders, to establish a Dictatorship of the Streets as well as over the Government itself," writes Alcala Zamora, describing events a few months before the Civil War began as he saw them as President of the Republic. "Anxiety increased. There was panic on the stock exchange. ... I lost all hope when I saw that four Governmental instructions had been framed with extraordinary partiality toward those who were culpable . . . [officials who] had supinely allowed the burning of churches, private houses, offices and workshops before the eyes of a passive...
...with the hairy chest and concrete chin, was reported busy with a speedboat last week rescuing White civilians from Red ports. "My only regret," said he, cuddling a submachine gun, "is that in war I can't use my fists." Spain's No. 1 football forward, Ricardo Zamora, was throwing hand grenades last week and various bull fighters were engaged en both sides at Madrid. "The Great Belmonte" had stopped fighting bulls to become a rural policeman...