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February 21, 1936

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SPAIN THREATENED BY MARTIAL LAW AS LEFTISTS RIOT; 8 Dead, 45 Reported Hurt in Disorders -- Mobs Try to Burn Churches and Convents. 10,000 PRISONERS FREED Government Moves for Wide Political Amnesty -- Azana on Radio Pleads for Peace. SOVIET STATE PREDICTED Socialists Call Victory at the Polls a First Step and Liken Largo Caballero to Lenin. SPAIN THREATENED BY MARTIAL LAW

By William P. Carney.wireless To the New York Times

Premier Azana to ask Cortes com to authorize Cabinet decree granting immediate amnesty to pol prisoners; Socialists on standing com; amnesty demonstrations continue resulting in 8 deaths and 45 wounded; Premier Azana makes radio appeal for order; Largo Caballero warns reactionaries will receive no mercy; conservative press criticizes formation of new Cabinet before new Parliament could convene; Azana Cabinet at first council meeting decides to carry out by decree most of Left election promises; Leftists direct activities against Catholics and Rightists; Socialists do not intend to give Azana same cooperation as when he first headed the Cabinet; aim to overthrow present form of democracy and set up Union of Iberian Soviet Republics

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Barbara Jordan

1936Barbara Jordan, American lawyer and politician (died 1996)[†]

Barbara Charline Jordan was an American lawyer, educator, and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the first African American elected to the Texas Senate since Reconstruction, the first southern African-American woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, and one of the first two African Americans elected to the U.S. House from the former Confederacy since 1901, alongside Andrew Young of Georgia.