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...Board: John H. McCormick, sub-chairman, Nicholas Satterlee, and Alfonso Assorio...
Engaged. The Infante Juan, 21, youngest living son of ex-King Alfonso XIII of Spain, midshipman in the British Navy; and Princess Marie Mercedes of Bourbon, 24, daughter of Prince Charles of Bourbon. Because his two older brothers, the ex-Prince of Asturias and the Infante Jaime, renounced their rights and married commoners, the Infante Juan is heir presumptive to the Spanish throne...
Married. Don Jaime, 26, second son of ex-King Alfonso XIII of Spain; and Emanuela de Dampierre. 20, granddaughter of Princess Ruspoli Poggio di Suasa, (née Josephine Curtis of Boston); in Rome. Born a deaf-mute, Don Jaime has learned to speak croakingly...
Among the things which onetime King Alfonso XIII left behind when he scuttled out of Spain in 1931 was a battered packing case in the palace basement, crammed with jewels worth $5,000,000, and marked "E. de B." for Eulalie de Bourbon, his sharp-tongued aunt. Spain's revolutionary rulers, who loved the Infanta Eulalie for her republican sympathies and the way she scolded the King, put the case away in the vaults of the Bank of Spain, promised to send it to its owner in Paris. Last week, having waited four years for the Government to keep...
Three years ago Luis Quintanilla was a great man in Madrid. A burning revolutionist all his life, he plotted ardently for the overthrow of Alfonso XIII and with his own hands ran up the first Republican flag over the Royal Palace. Socialist Indalecio Prieto was Minister of Finance then and commissioned Luis Quintanilla to paint huge frescoes on the walls of the Casa del Pueblo and the great new University City out at Moncloa Park. Free-spending Prieto lost his job and Spain swung farther to the Right. Fearing a Fascist dictatorship, perhaps even a restoration of the Bourbon Monarchy...