Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week the first duty of Prime Minister Berenguer was to settle the "strike" of Madrid University students. They were romping about the city, half clowning, half in earnest, shouting, "Down with the King! Death to policemen...
Commons after Lords. The House of Lords decisively rejected E. F. T. last fall. Last week it came up friendless in the Commons. Out of the House before the debate began slipped solid Stanley Bald win, leader of the Conservative Party, to which Viscount Rothermere has now strangely switched his support after furiously championing the Liberals in the last election with little or no success...
...schooled entirely by private nurses and tutors. He flunked the entrance examinations at Oxford, but served as a subaltern in-the Royal Horse Guards. He breeds horses as a hobby. His titles make him one of the Great Officers of State, ranking only fourth below the Prime Minister. Last week he appeared briefly in the news again, by turning himself into a corporation...
...Spain last week one of the happiest of men seemed to be Citizen Miguel Primo de Rivera...
...army disgust at the bloody Morocco fiasco, the then Captain General of Catalonia, Primo de Rivera, marched upon Madrid in 1923 with the "confidence" of his fellow military satraps and? it is generally believed?the connivance of the King. His Majesty thought in 1923 and continued to think last week that extra-Constitutional methods would best bulwark his Throne...