Word: cortese
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2) Women were allowed to vote during the plebiscite, whereas they have never been allowed to vote in the elections for the Cortes (Parliament: now suppressed).
* The Cortes were dissolved by a Royal Decree after General de Rivera sprang the Coup which placed him in control of Spain (TIME, Sept. 24, 1923).
Thus with pious invocation Dictator Premier Primo de Rivera formally proclaimed last week that a plebiscite would at once be held throughout Spain to determine whether the people desire to elect a Cortes* (Parliament) or to continue under the De Rivera dictature. Despatches gave the impression that the whole machinery...
Born. To Jacobo, 10th Duke of Berwick, 17th Duke of Alba, Senator in the Spanish Cortes, 48, and Maria del Rosario de Silva y Gurtubay, Marquesa de San Vicente, 26, a daughter; at Madrid. The Duke is commonly referred to as the highest grandee in Spain. The retiring U. S...
The Significance. Observers noted that the new Government has announced its intention of retaining the present censorship of the Spanish press, and opined that it will keep an all but dictatorial checkrein upon national activities. None the less Premier Primo de Rivera made statements which were interpreted as foreshadowing the...