Madariaga
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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That book is an idiosyncratic account of the explorer’s life by Salvador de Madariaga, a Spanish historian, who insisted that Columbus was a Catalan crypto-Jew whose family had migrated to Genoa.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026
Madariaga had concluded Columbus was a Jew, said Morison, “by fashioning a significant pattern of hypothesis and innuendoes unsupported by anything so vulgar as fact.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026
“We do not have any official notification from the Vatican about the existence of a complaint of this type,” Josefina Madariaga, director of Opus Dei’s press office in Argentina, told the AP.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 12, 2021
Chairman de Madariaga withdrew looking as if he had swallowed a mouthful of alum.
From Time Magazine Archive
Every one knew of Madariaga by name, although very few had seen him.
From The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Jordan, Charlotte Brewster
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