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...army officers whose loyalty to the Republic is in doubt. Chief prisoner was General Manuel Goded. After the fall of the monarchy two years ago General Goded was in high Republican favor for having started a plot to oust Dictator Primo de Rivera in 1929, for having told King Alfonso that his troops would no longer fight for him. Later General Goded changed his mind, was placed on the retired list. Just to be sure, he was exiled last week to the Canary Islands...
...brief years of Calvin Coolidge's presidency, Mr. Behn's International Telephone & Telegraph Corp., starting as an obscure Puerto-Rican adventure, had acquired most of the telephone business of South America, had obtained a complete monopoly in Spain from His Most Catholic Majesty Alfonso XIII, had rebuilt the telephones of Paris and Shanghai, had obtained the backing of J. P. Morgan & Co. With the acquisition of Mackay-Postal it became the second largest communication company in the world.* Last week Mr. Behn became a director of L. M. Ericsson Telephone Co., potent Swedish manufacturers of electrical equipment...
...from Wilmer Allison, in a match that Allison had to stir his stumps to win, 4-6, 6-3. 6-4. 6-4. Next day the U. S. team of George Lott & John Van Ryn disposed of Eduardo Mestre, whose father founded the Mexican Lawn Tennis Association, and Alfonso Unda, a onetime caddy, 6-0. 6-1, 7-5. That settled the series, and if Reyes and Dr. Tapia hoped the U. S. singles players would let down in the last two matches they had another disappointment. A broiling hot afternoon (92°) and Mexico City's altitude...
...Scripps-Howard News, divorced wife of Lumberman Hugh Fenwick. Los Angeles looks to Mrs. Juana Neal Levy of the Times for social guidance. Hearst's Examiner has "Cholly Angelo" (Mrs. Jean Loughborough) and gives prominent bylines to Princess Marie de Bourbon, cousin of Spain's Alfonso. Sh" tells most of her information to Mrs. Loughborough who ghost-writes it for her. In the Examiner the cinema colony has its own society department, run by Reine Davies (real name: Douras), sister of Film Actress Marion Davies. Headline-of-the-Week In the New York Times...
...When Alfonso Sanz y Martinez de Arrizola was 20 in 1901 he brought suit in French courts claiming that the inheritance settlement promised him had never been paid. According to Deputy Asua the case was quashed when King Alfonso, Don Carlos de Bourbon and Fernando Marlo de Baviera presented documents disproving the entire story. In France the case dragged on & on. Should Deputy Asua's charges of last week stick, it may be possible for the Spanish government to demand Alfonso XIII's extradition on charges of forgery. True or false the affair revived not only...