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Vittorio Emanuele III (Italy...
...Boris III (Bulgaria...
...Against the advice of his brother, the Emperor Francis Joseph, he accepted the Crown of Mexico upon promise of support from Napoleon III, which was not forthcoming. Abandoned, he made a last stand at Queretaro in the spring of 1867, but was captured, court-martialed, executed on June 19 of that year...
...Mexican spirit of which was infused into the antiPapal constitution of 1857 and finally forged into the present constitution of 1917 which specifically declares: "Only a Mexican by birth may be a minister of any religious creed in Mexico." Juarez, while president, not only repelled the attempts of Napoleon III to set up Maximilian of Austria as a Catholic emperor in Mexico (see BELGIUM, p. 13) but banished the Papal Nuncio and all Roman Catholic bishops from Mexico, by decrees if possible more arbitrary than those of President Calles. Yet Juarez died of apoplexy (1872) and the Church of Rome...
...story, $40,000,000 Equitable Building in Manhattan appealed to the du Pont interests at its construction in 1915. Last year the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers bought control. This they sold last week to William H. Vanderbilt, Harry C. Gushing III and President Leroy W. Baldwin of the Empire (labor interests) Trust...