Word: rivera
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...Great Britain to visit his ailing mother-in-law, Princess Beatrice. He realized that Spain's most immediate problem was not Republicanism, which like the poor he has always with him, but the parlous state of the Spanish peseta, which since the Dictatorship of the late Primo de Rivera has slumped from 5.89 to 10.66 to the dollar. A Loan from the House of Morgan helped stabilize the French franc in 1926. Spain had had $25,000,000 from the same source in 1928 in a frantic effort to peg the falling peseta. Thought Alfonso, a Morgan Loan would...
March 25?Convention of the restored Spanish parliament; at Madrid. Last previous parliamentary sitting: September 1923 (soon suspended by Primo de Rivera's coup d'état of Sept...
March 25-Convention of the restored Spanish parliament; at Madrid. Last previous parliamentary sitting: September 1923 (suspended by Primo de Rivera's historic coup d'état of Sept...
March 25?Convention of the restored Spanish parliament; at Madrid. Last previous parliamentary sitting: September 1923 (suspended by Primo (de Rivera's historic coup d'etat of Sept...
...Cabanas and, one by one, all the rest. Thus last week King Alfonso XIII, last absolute monarch in western Europe, switched back into the vein of dictatorship-this time with a salt-sea flavor. In receiving the oaths of his two military dictators (the late General Primo de Rivera and his successor General Berenguer), blue-jawed Alfonso always wore the uniform of a field marshal. Smart King. Soon all around King Alfonso rose, denser than usual, the heady perfume of praise. All his courtiers told His Majesty that he had just played superlatively well a most difficult hand at statecraft...