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...five miles per day, another White army under Colonel Juan Yague captured the former Red Militia General Staff Headquarters at Santa Olalla after savage bayonet fighting. At this the Madrid Government nervously issued what sounded like a desperate last-stand proclamation, calling "all citizens to the colors!" In Milan. Italy, ousted King Alfonso XIII of Spain popped into the Italian Royal Automobile Club, hopefully bought a set of Spanish road maps while his queen Victoria Eugenic was on sad business in Manhattan...
...original Vanderbilt Cup racecourse was over Long Island's oiled dirt roads. Roosevelt Raceway is an extraordinary establishment conceived by the first U. S. winner (1908) of the old Vanderbilt Cup race. Major George Robertson. After the War Major Robertson admired Italy's Monza course near Milan, thought a similar course near New York City might be a profitable venture. Three years ago he found a suitable spot-old Roosevelt Field, named for Roosevelt Fs aviator son Quentin, killed in the War, the field whence Lindbergh. Byrd. Chamberlin ct til. took off for Europe...
...order. That example, however, has been systematically and generally followed only among Roman Catholics. In the 16th Century St. Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus, laid down detailed rules for "retreats" in his Spiritual Exercises, and St. Charles (Cardinal) Borromeo established retreat houses in his archdiocese of Milan. Since the 17th Century annual retreats have been customary and obligatory for all Catholic priests. Since 1882, when a French Jesuit named Pere Henry pioneered among workingmen to revive the custom of attending them, retreats have steadily gained favor among pious laymen...
...Memphis, New Orleans, Dallas, Los Angeles, Mexico City and Torreon. In South America the firm has affiliates in Buenos Aires, Lima, Asuncion, Sao Paulo and Recife. Its Far Eastern offices are in Bombay, Shanghai and Osaka. Its Egyptian branch is in Alexandria, its French branch in Le Havre. In Milan it does business as Lamar Fleming & Co., in Liverpool as D. F. Pennefather & Co. Its representatives are scattered from Goteborg, Sweden, to Barcelona, Spain; from Lodź Poland, to Oporto, Portugal...
When Eugéne Tisserant was only a boy, Giovanni Mercati was making friends with Achille Ratti, then with the Ambrosian Library in Milan. Last week Vatican politicians were reminding newshawks to watch Cardinal Mercati at the conclave which must some day elect a new pope. One reason: new cardinals make good compromise candidates. Cardinal Mercati has been called the most learned prelate to be elevated to the purple in the past century. Succeeding Achille Cardinal Ratti in 1918 as prefect of the Vatican Library, Monsignor Mercati has published in U. S. and European journals many a scholarly article...