Word: marque
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Founded by Don Torcuato Luca de Tena, who was made a marqués for his work, A. B. C. was long considered Spain's No. 1 newspaper. During the World War A. B. C. built a great new printing establishment and Don Torcuato never bothered to deny rumors that it was paid for by the Central Powers. After the peaceful revolution of 1931 A. B. C.'s was the loudest voice demanding restoration of the monarchy...
Died. Manuel Garcia Prieto, Marqués de Alhucemas, 78, onetime (1917-23) Premier of Royalist Spain; in Burgos. When, few months before Primo de Rivera's 1923 coup, he was publicly asked whether a military clique was planning to take over the Government, the Marqués replied: "If it were true they would have to pass over my dead body." Thereafter friends & enemies alike called him "The Corpse...
...Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja, Marqués de Estella, pale and paunchy exiled Dictator of Spain, sat in his bedroom in the Hotel du Pont Royal in Paris last week writing letters. On their way to church, his two daughters Carmen and Pilar knocked on his bedroom door...