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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years a rivalry amounting practically to a feud has flourished between those choleric Spanish Generals, Don Miguel Primo de Riveri y Orbaneja, Marqués of Estella, and Don Valeriano Weyler y Nicolau, 86-year-old first Marqués of Teneriffe and Duke of Rubi. They have differed over the control of Catalonia, and have all but come to blows anent the conduct of the Spanish forces in Morocco. Now at last General de Rivera has triumphed. Last week, as the conqueror of Ajdir, the former capital of Abd-el-Krim (TIME, Oct. 12), he was able to demand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Exit Weyler | 10/19/1925 | See Source »

...same spirit, he relentlessly governed the Canary Islands in the name of Spain, and was rewarded by being created the Marqués of Teneriffe. His immediate past has been spent very largely amid heated politico-military squabbles, which have enlivened his existence as a fashionable Spanish grandee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Exit Weyler | 10/19/1925 | See Source »

...Author. John P. Marqu has followed the usual formula becoming a U. S. novelist. Graduated by Harvard in 1915, he tried jour ism with the Boston Transcript The New York Tribune. After a War career, he tried advertising. He found ''copy" easy to write but difficult take seriously, so he fled Manhattan, turned to writing novels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Proud Rogues* | 4/6/1925 | See Source »

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