Word: isabella
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Died. Rt. Rev. Msgr. Ramon M. Mestres, 66, longtime pastor of Carmel Mission (Calif.) where in 1899 he married Lou Henry and Herbert Clark Hoover; recipient of the Order of Isabella the Catholic from King Alfonso XIII of Spain for his restoration of Carmel Mission; after a long illness; at San Jose...
...Died. Isabella ("Pansy") Macdonald Alden, 88, Christian tract writer since the age of 8; after long illness, at Palo Alto, Calif...
...terrible rage, seeing her blood about to be balked of the Throne a second time, and again by a woman of the people, ambitious Isabella ordered Albrecht to take a cruise to South America "to forget."* With crafty meekness, Son Albrecht said he would obey his compelling, imperial mother. He duly set out for South America as she commanded, but stopped off for a day in Belgium to ruin her life work...
...night. Since their candidate had ditched them, the only possible future King for Hungary would seem to be "Little Otto." If and when proclaimed he may be expected to take vengeance on Julius Gömbös et al., not to mention Isabella. For comfort the fearful gathering looked to Count Stephen Bethlen de Bethlen, Prime Minister, who is said to have enlisted Signor Benito Mussolini's support for a Hungarian restoration?the new King to marry an Italian princess (TIME, June 2). Although recently rumored a supporter of Otto, Count Bethlen was formerly supposed to be an Albrechtist...
...Ashkenazic (German) Jews of northern and eastern Europe were scuttling from one oppressive country to another. Sephardic (Spanish) Jews were looming in the Mediterranean basin as leaders in medicine (Isaac Israeli), philosophy (Maimonides), government, and in commerce. When Christians drove the Moors from Spain and devout Ferdinand and Isabella expelled the Jews bag without baggage (1492), Sephardic Jewry declined. Some of the Spanish Jews migrated to the Netherlands. Spinoza was a Sephardic Jew. A Lisbon-born Sephardi who lived in Amsterdam was Manasseh ben Israel, who persuaded Cromwell to allow the Jews to return to England (they were expelled...