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...stay King, and at Bucharest last week Carol von Hohenzollern suddenly made himself as much a Dictator as was his brother-in-law, the late King Alexander of Yugoslavia, assassinated at Marseille (TIME. Oct. 15, 1934, et seq.). Carol II has long hankered after the absolutism of his Hohenzollern kinsman Wilhelm II. Last week's crisis broke after Premier Octavian Goga received two heavy blows: 1) his entire slate of anti-Semitic decrees was declared unconstitutional; and 2) a brawl in which Goga's own political rowdies, "The Lance Bearers," killed two members of the Nazi-Fascist Iron...
...Chancellor, Realmleader and Dictator. Another Hitler had come to Berlin a year before and likewise made good in his own way. but the Führer never publicly notices him. Alois, half brother of Adolf, also sprouts an oblong, dark mustache, but, unlike his abstinent vegetarian, nonsmoking, bachelor kinsman, Alois, a restaurant owner, goes for good solid food eased down with steins of German beer, puffs on cigars, has a 17-year-old son. Unlike the camera-famous Führer, Alois shies from newshounds, picture-takers...
...After many a fruitless interview with churchmen who were reluctant to allow him even to fly a plane of his own in Africa, Father Schulte received the blessings of his namesake (but no kinsman), Joseph Cardinal Schulte, Archbishop of Cologne. Soon after, in 1927, Father Schulte raised some money, founded the Missionalium Vehiculorum Associatio or Missions-Verkchrs-Arbeitsgemeinschajt ("Missionary Communications Association"). Calling it MIVA for short, Father Schulte chose as its motto: Obmam Christo terra marique et in aera ("Toward Christ on land and sea and in the air"). In 1929 he made his first journey...
...office with one impatient blast only to find it again on his desk, with modifications, a few days later. This resilient scheme belonged to President Roosevelt's fifth cousin once removed, Philip James Roosevelt, a Manhattan banker who fortnight ago shocked a Senatorial subcommittee by declaring that his kinsman's government was thievish. As chairman of a bondholders' committee for Minneapolis & St. Louis R. R., Banker Roosevelt was trying to get his own reorganization plan approved rather than see the road devoured piecemeal by eight other lines, as RFChairman Jones had suggested...
...dead volcano with his Guard of Honor, pushed loyal National Guardsmen to Fort Acosasco in Leon. Next day the National Guard assaulted the Presidential Palace in force, were repulsed with two dead, 16 wounded. Meanwhile National Guard artillery pounded away at Fort Acosasco, commanded by the President's kinsman, Major Ramon Sacasa...