Word: riveras
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Madrid. American Ambassador Ogden Hammond met Miss Elder and Pilot Haldeman at Getafe Airfield. Someone filled her arms with flowers. They lunched with the Royal Spanish Air Club; were visited at the Embassy by General Primo De Rivera, Dictator Premier; left by train for Bayonne, France, whence they would fly to Paris...
...perfect setting of perfect order, perfect weather, perfect enthusiasm, not top boisterous, nott too restrained, King Alfonso XIII, accompanied by his master, Dictator Premier Primo de Rivera, opened the new consultative National Assembly* (TIME, Sept. 26) in the Palace of the Cortes (Parliament), Madrid...
...attending the opening so soon after his arrival from a visit to Morocco, and immediately quitted the building. Senor Jose Maria Yanguas, onetime Secretary of State, was chosen President of the Assembly and made the opening speech, in which, as he was bound to, he lauded Dictator de Rivera...
...only disharmonious note was sounded by the announcement that the Duchess Parcent and the Countess San Luis, women delegates chosen by General de Rivera, had resigned half an hour before the session began...
...National Assembly is at present Spain's nearest approach to a Legislature; actually it is a consultative body, appointed by Dictator Primo de Rivera and working in committees for the most part. It is designed to aid the Dictator in framing: the laws of the nation...