Word: riverae
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...President" of the assemblage, one Pierre Taittinger, keynoted as follows: "To the violence of Communism we will oppose our force. Our aspirations are not those of the Facism of Benito Mussolini in Italy, nor of the Dictatorship of Primo de Rivera in Spain. What we want is another Clemenceau, as Clemenceau was and did in 1917. We want a leader who is real, in whom we can have confidence, and whose word will have authority and power...
...Madrid, General Primo de Rivera was felicitated at the War Ministry by 20,000 admirers, upon his success in capturing Ajdir. Said he: "The Spanish Army has now wiped out the debt to itself incurred in a former generation's unhappy Cuban War" [i. e., the Spanish-American struggle...
...victorious come many unique honors. For having conquered Ajdir, capital of Abd-el-Krim, General Primo de Rivera has been rewarded at Madrid by being adopted 165 times in a single day. The adopting was done at the Ministry of War by the representatives of Spanish towns and villages which wished to make the General "their...
...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 that General Weyler be relieved by the Spanish Government of his post as Chief of Staff of the Spanish Army...
...that he is an old man, he is said to have frequently forbidden his sons to fight duels in defense of his honor. And it is expected that he will accept the recent triumph of Primo de Rivera with stoicism, retire, and rest content with the verdict of good or ill fame which History must pass upon...