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Royal Coup. Despite Republican riots, judicious observers felt that His Catholic Majesty Alfonso XIII had immeasurably strengthened his own position in the past fortnight. After swearing in the strong Royalist cabinet of Admiral Juan Bautista Aznar (TIME, March 2), Alfonso went to Great Britain to visit his ailing mother-in-law, Princess Beatrice. He realized that Spain's most immediate problem was not Republicanism, which like the poor he has always with him, but the parlous state of the Spanish peseta, which since the Dictatorship of the late Primo de Rivera has slumped from 5.89 to 10.66 to the dollar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Pesetas v. Parades | 4/6/1931 | See Source »

...Lancaster, Pa., Mrs. Aline Hall, 22, wanted her husband to give her a fur coat. Her mother-in-law wanted a canary. The mother-in-law got a fur coat; Mrs. Aline Hall got the bird. Mrs. Aline Hall took poison, was dangerously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 12, 1931 | 1/12/1931 | See Source »

...long ago Westport, Conn., was considerably stirred, as no doubt you know, by William McFee's comments (TIME, Sept. 22). The enclosed was written by my mother-in-law, Mary P. C. Staples, and I have her permission to send it to you to be published if you care to use it. Mrs. Staples is an elderly woman, to whom Westport and everything connected with it is very dear. Her family and her husband's have been identified with the town since it was settled. They now belong to the older and conservative element in the town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 24, 1930 | 11/24/1930 | See Source »

...Christian wife praying for him, conquered all of China proper (TIME, June 21, 1928 et ante). He has just been through a long summer of battles to consolidate his conquest. Last week there was no apparent reason, except sincere conviction, why the president should have gone to his mother-in-law's house in Shanghai, sent for the Rev. Z. T. Kaung, Methodist Episcopal Church South, and said: "I feel the need of a God such as Jesus Christ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A President is Baptized | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

...this morning's mail came the enclosed clipping, sent by my mother-in-law, Mrs. Alex Vreatt of Wrangell, Alaska. This clipping from The Alaskan of Petersburg, Alaska is especially of interest if you turn over the title page. There you will note that it is published by the Alaska Native Brotherhood Publishing Co. The Alaska Native Brotherhood is an organization of native Alaskan Indians. Evidently your magazine and articles are read not only over the entire world but by Alaskan Indians as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Mast | 10/6/1930 | See Source »

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