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Unlike Don Jaime de Bourbon, Alfonso XIII's cousin, Alfonso Sanz y Martinez de Arrizola never claimed to be the rightful King of Spain, but he did claim that the Spanish royal family owed him a living, promised him an inheritance and defaulted its obligation. The story...
After seven long years of watching French politics from Belgium, the Bourbon Pretender to the throne of France, six-foot, curly-whiskered Monseigneur Le Duc de Guise, decided last week that things were at last going badly enough for him to issue his first public appeal for restoration...
...Most barmen use hot water, with a double hooker of rye, bourbon or corn. Scotch is eschewed as non-indigenous...
With the possible exception of old Bourbon whiskey, the most important things in the lives of Kentuckians are the Derby in May and the tobacco auctions in December. Last year, because Kentucky's famed burley tobacco began to sell as low as $4.61 per 100 Ib. (about one-half 1930 levels), the growers at one of the auctions muttered curses, shouted threats, then took to pelting the manager of the "floor" (warehouse) with apples, broke up the auction in a general riot. Several other auctions had to be postponed. Last week Kentucky growers were jubilant. In addition...
While the General ate his dinner, mobs shouted around the prison. Communists rioted in Bilbao. In San Sebastian, Republicans tried to lynch several Monarchists. In Barcelona, Archduke Carlos of Habsburg-Bourbon was arrested on suspicion. After a night of serene sleep General Sanjurjo set out for El Dueso Prison in Santander Province to begin a term which few Spaniards expect him to finish...