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While Dictator Francisco Franco palavered along the Mediterranean with Dictator Mussolini and Marshal Pétain (see p. 27) his onetime sovereign added another egg to the Spanish omelet. Dandified, talkative King Alfonso XIII, deathly ill with angina pectoris in Rome, announced that a month ago he had abdicated his vacant throne in favor of his son, 27-year-old Don Juan, Prince of the Asturias...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Alfonso's Gesture | 2/24/1941 | See Source »

...Best omelet-without-eggs: The Male Animal, which managed to be a lot of fun without being a play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Annual Report | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

...credentials were examined again, found in order. Two young lieutenants took pity on the Times'?, Philip, escorted him back to the railway, and turned him over to the stationmaster's wife. She took him up to her kitchen while he waited for another train, made him an omelet, gave him wine and coffee. Two hours later Percy Philip was on his way to Paris, safe in a compartment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: They Were There | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

Although the Founding Fathers may not have anticipated it, political parties and pressure groups are today the very life of the American governmental process. To attempt to study our system without studying its parties and pressures is to try to make an omelet when you haven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REVIVING THE GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT | 10/28/1939 | See Source »

Lutheranism in the U. S. has no more unity than a basket of eggs. To give it the unity of an omelet has long been the dream of many a Lutheran-a dream partly realized in 1918, when several Lutheran bodies were merged into the United Lutheran Church, largest (1,599,102 baptized members) in the land. Last week United Lutherans held their 11th biennial conference in Baltimore. As always, they elected bald, goateed, precise Dr. Frederick Hermann Knubel of Manhattan to be their president. As always, Dr. Knubel, now 68, accepted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Lutherans & Unity | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

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