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...Minister of Agriculture went 37-year-old Miguel Primo de Rivera, only living brother of the Falange's founder and No. 1 martyr...
...Carrero Blanco, who was Chief of Naval Operations throughout the Civil War. In as Chief of Staff of the Army was another of Franco's intimates, General Jose Fidel Davila. Out went the Falangist head of the national police, many lesser fry and five provincial governors, including Miguel Primo de Rivera, brother of the Falange's founder. When the Falangist paper Arriba attacked him, Galarza promptly rescinded a five-day-old order exempting it from Government censorship...
...Simon, oversized son of a Jewish butter-&-egg salesman, was no more worthy a challenger than Gus Dorazio, Red Burman, Al McCoy or the half-dozen other second-raters who have served as punching bags for the Champ. Patterned on the lines of Primo Camera, Giant Simon, a stand-up boxer (6 ft. 4 in.), had nothing up his forearm but the longest reach (83 in.) and the largest mitts (14½ in.) in the fight game...
...dictator himself, he put his country in the hands of Dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera, ousted him too late to divert his people's resentment from himself and his office. When the Republicans sent him into exile in 1931 he drove his own car to Cartagena, jauntily boarded a cruiser. His exile changed nothing. He was merely a king on his travels in France, Austria, Switzerland, Italy. Almost daily, long dispatches came to him from Spain. He studied them, grew encyclopedic on Spanish affairs, awaited confidently his restoration as a constitutional monarch...
...third time, lurching, monolithic Primo Camera, who pushed his way to the world's boxing championship seven years ago, was rejected for service in the Italian Army. Heavyweight Camera tried to enlist as a parachutist, was told no ordinary parachute would float his 292 pounds...