Word: rubies
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General Don Valerian Weylery Nicolau, Marquis of Teneriffe and Duke of Rubi, was acquitted last week by a court-martial in Madrid of the charge (TIME, July 5), that he fomented a plot last summer to seize the Government. Citizens of the U. S. know that "Butcher" Weyler, 88, has not yet lived down the odium of his bloodthirsty governorship of Cuba (1896-97) - a direct and major cause of the Spanish-American War. From blood, oppression, graft, he wrung a fortune now one of the largest in Spain...
Half a million pesetas ($76,350) were extorted last week in Madrid from that long-lived paragon of infamy and extortion, General Don Valeriano Weyler y Nicolau, 87, Marquis of Teneriffe and Duke of Rubi, backer of the suppressed "Old Man's Revolution" against Dictator-Premier Primo de Rivera (TIME, July 5). General Weyler, as Spanish Governor of Cuba (1896-97), not only taxed Cuban industry into bankruptcy and pocketed the taxes, but sold Spanish arms to Cuban rebels through secret agents-finally sent troops to seize the arms and execute the "traitors." Last week General Weyler...
...Franco-Spanish frontier, eagerly questioned travelers from Spain declared: "Weyler is after Primo's scalp again." They meant, of course, General Don Valeriano Weyler y Nicolau, Marquis of Teneriffe and Duke of Rubi. He had, it was reported, lent the weight of his notorious influence to a band of his henchmen, who counted on marching from Barcelona to Madrid and Power-even as Dictator Primo made exactly that same "march à la Mussolini" (TIME, Sept. 24, 1923). The active leaders of the revolt were 18 generals and a round dozen of Liberal and Communist politicians. General Aguilera, onetime Minister...
...years a rivalry amounting practically to a feud has flourished between those choleric Spanish Generals, Don Miguel Primo de Riveri y Orbaneja, Marqués of Estella, and Don Valeriano Weyler y Nicolau, 86-year-old first Marqués of Teneriffe and Duke of Rubi. They have differed over the control of Catalonia, and have all but come to blows anent the conduct of the Spanish forces in Morocco. Now at last General de Rivera has triumphed. Last week, as the conqueror of Ajdir, the former capital of Abd-el-Krim (TIME, Oct. 12), he was able to demand...