Word: jacobo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Intoxicated by the rabble-rousing, a young Fascist dashed from the crowd and slugged a passing Jew, Jacobo Glantz, a naturalized Mexican citizen who is literary editor of the Yiddish newspaper, The Pathway. Glantz took refuge in the nearby hat shop of his wife but before the police could get to him, the Jew-hating crowd had wrecked the storefront...
Shocked were ladies of the Spanish court, and particularly Her Majesty Queen Victoria Eugenie (granddaughter of Britain's arch-stickler, Queen Victoria) when Miss Mary Pickford and Mr. Douglas Fairbanks were actually received on terms of cordial and convivial intimacy by sporting King Alfonso XIII's closest pal, exalted Jacobo Stuart Fitz-James, Duke of Alba, Constable of Navarre and 14 times a grandee of Spain (TIME...
...Cabinet. Jaunty, rich, immensely popular, as fond of champagne cocktails as the King, is famed Jacobo Stuart Fitz-James, Duke of Alba (TIME, Dec. 2). Well known to be His Majesty's closest crony, the Duke was recently rumored as a successor to Primo de Rivera, who said at the time "I would never stand in the Duke of Alba...