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Vice President and Foreign Minister: General Count Francisco de Jordana, militarist veteran of the Primo de Rivera dictatorship, intimate personal friend of President Franco. Rightist Foreign Affairs have previously been handled by Antonio de San Groniz, dropped from the present Cabinet...
...Primo Carnera, onetime side-show freak and carnival wrestler, beat Jack Sharkey in six rounds and became heavyweight champion of the world in 1933. Fighting all over Europe and the U. S., Carnera, a bewildered, grinning hulk, probably earned a million dollars. His managers got most of it. He threw most of his away, then disappeared from U. S. sport pages after Negro Leroy Haynes knocked him out twice. Two months ago word came from France that Primo Carnera had been knocked out by a sparring partner while training for a comeback...
...statement and picture, and then settled down to some fun with the Willard's diminutive bellhop, Joe Johnson, posing him in innumerable belligerent attitudes defending the door against all comers. After exhausting the possibilities of Joe Johnson, who informed them that he had once been photographed perched on Primo Camera's arm, the reporters and newsmen gleefully learned that the Willard was serving them free lunch and liquor. They ate in shifts, later took turns in a poker game, for any opening of the locked door might mean the biggest labor story since the strike in "Little Steel...
...Fascist Grand Council for Rightist Spain was announced. The definite Cabinet duties of each member of the Grand Council had yet to be fixed. Among the five of its dozen members to be named last week was the 27-year-old daughter of Spain's late Dictator Primo de Rivera, Pilar...
Brother Francisco had been under fire in Morocco at the age of 17, helped General Milan Astray form the Spanish Foreign Legion, and got his first working knowledge of fascism when he was picked by Dictator Primo de Rivera to act as liaison officer with the French in the Riff campaign of 1925. He won his brigadiership and the distinction of being the youngest general in Spain at the age of 34. When a military academy was established at Saragossa young Francisco Franco became its first director...