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...furnished the No. 1 collegiate rivalry of the Midwest: the struggle for the Little Brown Jug that served as a water jug that day.* Through the decades Minnesota, winner of eleven Big Ten titles, became famed for its powerful lines that looked-to opposing teams-like a nightmare of Primo Cameras; Michigan, winner of 14 Big Ten titles, became famed for its speedy passing and tricks that made jugglers look like paralytics...
...Bluff, rotund Primo de Rivera seemed solidly in power in Spain from 1923 to 1930. He scrapped the constitution, ruled by decree, sent his opponents to exile, clamped down on free speech and press. When Marcosson saw Primo after Alfonso's abdication, he had no uniform, smartness, or confidence, said good-by shakily, raced to Paris where he died forgotten in a Left Bank hotel...
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...
Twice in the last century - 1834-39 and 1871-86 - Spain was rocked by the Carlist civil wars. During the 1920s she suffered several general strikes, a seemingly interminable Moroccan War, an ironclad, royally inspired dictatorship under Primo de Rivera. In 1931, she ousted her King, adopted a modern, republican constitution. In 1932, General Sanjurjo led a shortlived Monarchist revolt in Seville. In 1934, Left extremists staged an equally abortive but longer armed rebellion in Asturias. Interested though it was, Europe left Spain's domestic convulsions strictly to Spain...
...member is iron-fisted General Martinez Anido, Minister of Public Order, who for the past ten months has headed Franco's secret police, his hard bitten Guardia Civil, his frontier and highway guards. He was for seven years Minister of the Interior under Spain's late Dictator, Primo de Rivera (TIME, Dec. 2, 1929), suppressed Communists and Anarchists in Barcelona with such vigor that they retaliated by nicknaming him. "The Epileptic Pig." His nature has not softened...