Word: marque
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...Lima and Quito were shorter than usual. Each capital suspected that the other was trying to buy U.S. support with concessions. Other American capitals suspected, with more reason, that Axis and pro-Axis provocateurs had planted and watered the first suspicion. The Spanish Ambassador to Peru, Pablo de Churruca, Marqués de Aycinena, who once studied the problem for Arbiter Alfonso XIII, was shrewdly suspected of having put pressure on Peru to hold out for a lion's share of the territory...
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...
...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...