Word: braganga
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...Nuno, 50, a recent settler in Lisbon, and the twig upon a branch of Portugal's royal family tree. Last week Dom Duarte got some royal competition. Portugal's anti-Nuno monarchist faction presented a petition in Rome to well-preserved Princess Maria Pia of Saxe-Coburg Braganga. 50, an illegitimate child of Portugal's assassinated (in 1908) King Carlos I, to start pretending. A pro-Maria spokesman gave short shrift to Dom Duarte: "That impostor must never become king!" As a poet and unproduced playwright, Maria Pia rose dramatically to the occasion: "If my people want...
...flower garden at Santa Comba. It was there, and through the medium of the flowers he loves, that he met the woman who has in the last few months made an extraordinary difference in his life. When he decided to give a reception for Dona Amelia de Orleans e Braganga, mother of Don Duarte Nufio, the pretender to Portugal's throne, his advisers suggested that the Countess de la Seca, a widow with two young children, should act as hostess. When the Countess took over the flower arrangement for the party, Salazar was so impressed by her taste that...
Foreign influences are strong. Brazil has some 3,500,000 Italians and sons-of-Italians. Last year Edda Mussolini Ciano took a "health trip" to Brazil, where her chief host was Dom João de Orléans e Braganga, "heir" to the Brazilian throne and patron of the Integralistas, super-Fascist greenshirts whom Dictator Vargas has so far managed to suppress...
...life interest in a $2,000,000 trust fund. Except for the $1,000,000 trust fund bequeathed to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Foundation will eventually manage all the trust funds Banker Hayden allotted to relatives and friends, including a $30,000 annuity for Anita Stewart de Braganga, widow of the pretender to the Portuguese throne. To Hayden, Stone & Co. the executors were empowered to lend $5,000,000 so that the banking firm might avoid "any embarrassment" during its management transition. Not to be decided until the Foundation's four administrators meet is whether Banker Hayden...
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