Word: marquese
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First move was to make another of those sober, resigned, high minded statements which are so useful in re-establishing the prestige of deposed monarchs. This one was given to the world by Marques de Luca de Tena, editor of the Royalist Madrid daily, A. B. C. Said King Alfonso...
Second move was to hold a series of lengthy secret conferences in Paris, send the Marques de Tena hotfoot off to Madrid to beg the various Royalist groups in Spain to forget their differences for the time being and present a united front in the forthcoming June elections under that...
As an ex-Prime Minister, a Marques, a Lieutenant-General in the Spanish Army, Don Primo is entitled to a military funeral in Madrid, with the entire garrison brigade in the line of march. Such a funeral was planned for him; a host of grandees, churchmen, royal representatives and public...
Died. Lieutenant-General Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja. Marques De Estella, 60, whilom Dictator of Spain; at Paris; of an embolism (see p. 25).
8.40 p. m.: Citizen Primo de Rivera leaves the Palace, still a Marques, still a Duke, announcing formally to the press: "I have resigned as Prime Minister because of ill health. . . . The King has been pleased to call as my successor the Chief of his Military Household, Lieut. General Don...