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...sons he left behind in Spain had adequately defended their father's honor last week, their swords would have been dripping with the gore of half the artillery officers in Madrid, for these gentry, who hated Primo de Rivera, seldom refer to him in public today without an oath plus an expectoration...
...precisely infirm, perhaps, but paunchy, soft, and comparatively defenseless is Citizen Miguel Primo de Rivera, onetime Dictator of Spain, now with his daughters sampling the delights of Paris...
Unlike the other two who have fought Primo Camera in the U. S. to date, Bill Owens, a mulatto of Guthrie, Okla., did not lose the ability to move and think at his first glimpse of his opponent's bulk. For a round he dodged the terrific right uppercuts and left hooks winged at him; he countered, ducked, and backed away, but at the start of the second Camera rushed out of his corner at a speed amazing for so big a man, landed a right, then rapid rights and lefts. Black Owens went down backward flat...
...Cabinet. Jaunty, rich, immensely popular, as fond of champagne cocktails as the King, is famed Jacobo Stuart Fitz-James, Duke of Alba (TIME, Dec. 2). Well known to be His Majesty's closest crony, the Duke was recently rumored as a successor to Primo de Rivera, who said at the time "I would never stand in the Duke of Alba...
...Chicago, 18,000 people paid $59,625 to see gargantuan Primo Camera fight a French-Canadian slugnut named Elzear Rioux. Because Rioux, 63¼ Ibs. the lighter, only lasted 47 seconds, taking six knockdowns in that time and never landing a punch, the Illinois State Athletic Commission withheld the purse. The Commission felt that Rioux had been too consistently horizontal for the fight to be honest. Carnera's friends insisted he was being penalized merely because, in a profession full of chicanery, the prowess of an honest monster taxed credulity...