Word: riveras
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...news tips reached Manhattan, last week, that slender, weak-chinned King Alfonso XIII had asserted himself, at last, over Spain's paunchy and ruthless Dictator, General Don Miguel Primo de Rivera. The Associated Press thought that soon Don Miguel "may be replaced"; and other news services carried similar stories...
...worthy Don Rafael who beamingly despatched to newspapers what he said was a true and authoritative translation of a cable just received from Dictator Primo de Rivera himself. Text...
Meanwhile Spain's Dictator General Don Miguel Primo de Rivera gave quaint testimony to present turbulent conditions in Spain. Said he, "I feel no disquietude. . . . Not more than four per cent of the subjects of His Majesty are disposed to rebellion, so there is no need for apprehension...
Meanwhile in Spain there stirred the embers of revolution which always blaze up when His Majesty leaves the country. The latest previous outburst was during Alfonso XIII's visit to George V (TIME, July 23). Last week stern Dictator of Spain Primo de Rivera caused the arrest of 4,000 persons, many prominent, and the revolt guttered. Imperturbable, the Dictator prepared to attend maneuvers of the Spanish Grand Fleet, off the Mediterranean coast of Spain, a coast which is notoriously the hotbed of Spanish revolutionaries...
Said Lieutenant Primo de Rivera, after confirming the announcement that he comes to found an Hispano-U.S. tourist bureau (TIME...