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...Hoover was confined to her room with a wrenched back, a bad cold. President Hoover who also had a cold attended Easter services at Friends Meeting House without...
Chamber and Senate last week passed legislation to increase duties by weight instead of ad valorem on imported motor cars (TIME, April 21). The Chamber later carried a Government motion waiving the usual six-week Easter recess, compelling Parliament to sit and sweat over a complex social insurance bill already debated to distraction...
...squirt-bench is not in Madrid, but in the royal gardens of the Alcazar, a Moorish palace in Seville where the court seldom resides except during Seville's famed "Easter Week," an occasion of surpassing splendor. Indeed the squirt-bench had not been used until last week since Edward of Wales visited Seville (TIME, May 30, 1927). The long intervals between the times King Alfonso plays his favorite prac- tical joke keep other Royalties comparatively ignorant that the squirt-bench exists. Ignorant last week was Prince Aymon Robert Marguerite Marie Joseph Turin, Duke of Spoleto, 30, reputed suitor...
...Moscow the counter-religious magazine Besbozhnik ("The Atheist") faced Easter Sunday last week with a fat register full of boys' and girls' names...
Ladies Leave. Mrs. Charles Francis Adams and Mrs. Dwight Whitney Morrow set sail for Manhattan last week. Secretary of the Navy Adams admitted that his wife was going home to spend the Easter holidays with their son Charles Francis Jr. Mr. Morrow did not deny a report that his wife was leaving "because of important social engagements." Earlier in the week the wife of Ambassador-Delegate Hugh Simons Gibson had returned to her children in Brussels. Mrs. Henry Lewis Stimson was left the sole U. S. delegate's wife to stay on doggedly through the eleventh week of the Conference...