Word: barcelona
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...story in circulation about the rise of Primo is contained in the following telephone conversation between Senor Niceto Alcala Zamora, Minister of War, in Madrid, and Primo, the Captain General of Barcelona, in Barcelona...
...schedule of the combined Harvard-Yale tennis team, which is to play the Oxford-Cambridge aggregation in East-bourne this summer, according to an announcement by the United States Lawn Tennis Association. Tentative dates have been set as August 15 in Paris for the former, and August 20 in Barcelona for the latter...
Speaking at Barcelona, where he inspected a new palace that has been built for Alfonso and his consort, Primo said that business conditions were "not very good but not very bad"; that transit over road and railroad is now safe, because of the vast military forces which patrol them; that the country is under military law only until he (Primo) has finished administering his political purge; that the majority of Spaniards favor the monarchy and hold no republican predilections; that a military expedition is to end Spanish troubles in Morocco during next month ?a story similar to many others...
Revolution. A revolution in Spain had been expected for months, yet when it came it had the appearance of rising like a wind in the night. Originating in Barcelona, under the leadership of the redoubtable General Primo Rivera, the revolution is an almost exact analogy to the Fascist revolution of last year in Italy, which started in Milan; both these places are chief industrial centers, where the doctrines of socialism and communism were most securely rooted. It appears that all good Spaniards went to bed one night only to awaken next morning to find that a revolution had taken place...
...Madrid surgeon, Torras Talarn, has developed a serum which saved a middle-aged man and a young girl in the last stages of tuberculosis. All the tuberculous patients in a Barcelona hospital will be given the treatment...