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...were receptions in the Magdalena Palace, dances in the clubs, frolicking townsfolk and tourists everywhere. U. S. Ambassador Ogden H. Hammond came down from Madrid. There was a short yacht race; the Queen trounced the King, and the infantes Gonzalo and Jaime finished in the rear; General Don Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja, Marques de Estella, Duque de Ajdur and Dictator of Spain, a spectator, laughed softly on the deck of another ship. . . . At the Maritime Club it was reported that one of the yachts from the U. S. had been sighted. King Alfonso leaped in a launch...
Head Absent. The head of the Spanish Government is His Excellency General Don Miguel Primo De Rivera, Marques de Estella and Dictator of Spain. Excitement over His Majesty's return coincided with a furore of curiosity about His Excellency. Gossip-loving courtiers envied King Alfonso more than usual, because he was, last week, perhaps the only man in Spain who could with propriety ask Dictator De Rivera just what is the state of his relations with the Señorita Mercedes de Castellanos (TIME, June 25). When King and Dictator clasped hands, last week, and retired for a most...
...Duke of Almodovar and Count Cimera each addressed furious open letters, last week, to General Don Miguel Primo de Rivera, Marquis de Estella, Prime Minister and Dictator of Spain...
Since dictators are proverbially above honor, dueling, and stooping to answer open letters, General Primo de Rivera contented himself, last week, with observing to reporters: "My position does not permit me to be at the disposition of persons who, thinking themselves damaged by my statements, would seek to involve me in a personal dispute...
...Most Catholic Majesty, King Alfonso XIII, now admittedly under the dictator's heavy thumb, continued to evince no sign of distaste for General Primo de Rivera...