Word: marias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year and more King Albert and Queen Elizabeth have been seriously shopping for a princess. Where to look? Crown Prince Leopold,* for whom the princess was intended, is 24. Therefore the Spanish princesses would be a trifle young: Beatriz, 17, and Maria Christina, 14. Princess Giovanna of Italy is 18, but Rome and Brussels are not so near as they used to be before the appearance of Mussolini with his antipathy for Belgium. Princess Ileana of Rumania, sole unmarried daughter of a Balkan monarch, is of course only...
Upon the U. S. cruiser Rochester, anchored off the east coast of Nicaragua, Rear Admiral Julian L. Latimer received last week representatives of the unrecognized de facto government of Nicaragua and the militant leader of Nicaragua's revolutionaries, General Jose Maria Moncada. President Chamorro of Nicaragua conveyed through his representatives the terms of an armistice which he was willing to conclude with the embattled revolutionaries (TIME, May 17 et seq.). General Moncada accepted the terms of armistice with slight modifications. Loomed a peace conference under U. S. auspices, at which Usurper Chamorro, and the "revolutionaries" (really "counter revolutionaries...
Died. General José Maria Orellana, President of Guatemala, 54, brave and completely successful revolutionary. Two months after his overthrow of the Herrera Administration (1922) he was elected to serve as President until...
...Mexican Episcopate issued last week a pastoral letter signed by Archbishop Jose Maria Del Rio in which the encouragement of Pope Pius XI was extended to the Catholics of Mexico, embattled against the enforcement of the anti-religious Mexican Constitution by President Calles (TIME...
...Maria Guglielmi, sister of the late Rudolph Valentino: "My brother left an estate of more than $1,000,000 which will be divided equally between myself, my other brother, Alberto, who is now in Hollywood, and the aunt of Winifred Shaughnessy Hudnut, Mrs. Teresa Werner, who took such motherly care of Rudolph after Winifred had divorced him last year. Winifred (also known professionally as Natacha Rambova) was bequeathed the sum of $1. The bulk of Rudolph's estate will come from his earnings in his last two films, The Eagle and The Son of the Sheik. However, there...