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Senorita Mercedes Castellanos achieved politest world renown (TIME, April 23) when it was announced at Madrid that she, an orphan & a spinster of 47, would shortly be taken to wife by the Dictator of Spain, General Don Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja, Marquis de Estella...
Reported Engaged. Prime Minister Don Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja, Marquis de Estella, 58, Grandee of Spain and Dictator since 1923, to Senorita Nina Castillano, 47, daughter of the Countess de San Felice of San Sebastien. The prospective bride enjoys an annual income of 500,000 pesetas...
Signing. Pen poised, King Alfonso XIII hesitated, last week, over the signing of what is destined to become a historic document. At his side was Lieutenant General Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja, Marquis de Estella, Grandee of Spain, Dictator under the ample title of President of the Council. His presence seemingly threw a dark shadow over the Spanish crown. The pen descended at the foot of the royal desk. It wrote: "Alfonso...
...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...