Second Spanish Republic (1931-1939)
after the abdication of Alfonso XIII on 14 April there was no official head of state, meaning that the Prime Minister, officially known as President of the Government, was in effect the highest office in the land.
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“Ferdinand De Soto, sleeping
In the river, never heard
Four-and-twenty Spanish hooves
Fling off their iron and cut the green,
Leaving circles new and clean
While overhead the wing-tips whirred.”
—Mark Van Doren (1894–1973)
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—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)