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...privilege of Greatness is to speak in words which send common folk ascurrying to dictionaries. Lustrum is such a word. Last week His Excellency General Don Miguel Primo de Rivera, Marquis de Estella, Prime Minister and Dictator of Spain announced...
General Don Miguel Primo de Rivera, 58, Prime Minister and Dictator of Spain, thoroughly jilted, last week, his 47-year-old fiancee (TIME, May 14) the Senorita Mercedes Castellanos, rich, vivacious, superbly preserved...
...decrees of major import were issued, last week, under the imperious aegis of paunchy, florid Dictator Don Miguel Primo de Rivera, Marquis de Estella. The first almost quadruples Spain's usual appropriation for naval construction and brings the sum available for this purpose in 1928 up to 600,000,000 pesetas ($100,200,000). The second establishes the manufacture of paper as a State monopoly, thus strengthening the direct control over Spanish newspapers already exercised by the present Dictature...
...Count, whose name is de Guell, is essential because he is a close friend of Spanish Dictator Primo de Rivera from whom the Compania Telefonica Nacional de Espana (dominated by the I. T. & T.) got an almost unrestricted concession to operate all the telephones of Spain, now and hereafter...
...Most Catholic Majesty is thought to agree with Dictator Primo de Rivera that none of the four Spanish Infantes (sons of the King) are physically fit to inherit the Throne. For their weaknesses and infirmities His Majesty is understood to blame not his own ardent self, but Her Majesty. He is said to have tested this theory by begetting, under the rose, certain quite robust offspring...