Word: riveras
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...RIVERA...
More appropriate seemed the second but obscure meaning of lustrum: a period of five years. On September 15, 1928, Dictator de Rivera will have been in power for one whole lustrum. "At that time," he declared last week, "my government will address the country respecting the new laws [said to envision merely the creation of an advisory Assembly, with Parliament continuing suppressed]. . . . These measures will be submitted to a national plebiscite...
...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...