Word: aznar
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...election was only for municipal aldermen. But as a straw vote of the national issue of Monarchy v. Republic it was terrific, carried more than a possibility that the straw would flame up in revolution. Said Prime Minister Admiral Aznar, "Disastrous?that was what I told His Majesty. When a Monarchistic country turns Republican within twenty-four hours, the crisis is enough for anyone...
Royal Coup. Despite Republican riots, judicious observers felt that His Catholic Majesty Alfonso XIII had immeasurably strengthened his own position in the past fortnight. After swearing in the strong Royalist cabinet of Admiral Juan Bautista Aznar (TIME, March 2), Alfonso went to Great Britain to visit his ailing mother-in-law, Princess Beatrice. He realized that Spain's most immediate problem was not Republicanism, which like the poor he has always with him, but the parlous state of the Spanish peseta, which since the Dictatorship of the late Primo de Rivera has slumped from 5.89 to 10.66 to the dollar...
...humbly bows to the Admiral upon the Throne. His Most Catholic Majesty* is about to hear the oaths of allegiance which will bind to him the bodies, minds and souls of his new Cabinet. Beneath the crucifix lies a Bible. Upon it swear Prime Minister Admiral Juan Bautista Aznar y Cabanas and, one by one, all the rest. Thus last week King Alfonso XIII, last absolute monarch in western Europe, switched back into the vein of dictatorship-this time with a salt-sea flavor. In receiving the oaths of his two military dictators (the late General Primo de Rivera...
...possibilities of streamlining and other refinements have barely been touched. Inventor. Chubby, wealthy Juan de la Cierva, 37, is son of a Spanish statesman and lawyer. His father has been Minister of War, Minister of the Interior, last week was appointed Minister of Public Works in the newly formed Aznar Cabinet. The younger de la Cierva, at 15, built with two young friends what he believes was the first successful airplane ever to be constructed in Spain. In 1919 he built the second tri-motor in the world. It flew well, but a test pilot unaccustomed to such craft banked...