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The sea, like the breath of mythical and playful goddesses, goes to the heads of worldlings. It gives them an inexplicable grandeur, a constant vibration between excitement and ease, a strange language. Take, for example, the events at Santander, Spain, on the Bay of Biscay during the last three weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Santander | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

Head Absent. The head of the Spanish Government is His Excellency General Don Miguel Primo De Rivera, Marques de Estella and Dictator of Spain. Excitement over His Majesty's return coincided with a furore of curiosity about His Excellency. Gossip-loving courtiers envied King Alfonso more than usual, because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Majesty Returns | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

Besides providing these addenda to earth's natural equipment, the I. T. & T. stockholders provided for their own profit and comfort by re-electing directors who have supported President Sosthenes Behn in his amazing expansion of the business. Many financially conscious persons noted for the first time that two...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: International Communications | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

The Marques, Don Estanislao de Urquijo, is president of the Compania Telefonica and has inherited a close financial connection with the Bourbon dynasty (his father having given many a shrewd bit of advice to Alfonso XIII. in the King's early days. The present Marques de Urquijo is rated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: International Communications | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

Hitherto foreign directors of major U. S. corporations have represented foreign investment in the U. S. These Spaniards signify the opposite: U. S. interests in foreign countries. When the Marques de Urquijo's heir came to the U. S. to learn banking, reporters captioned him as "Friend of J...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: International Communications | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

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