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...twelfth agreement between the U. S. and a foreign nation to combat liquor smuggling, and thus bolster up the Volstead Act, was reached last week when Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg and Don Alejandro Padilla y Bell, recently arrived Spanish Ambassador, exchanged solemn pacts. Similar agreements are now in force with Canada, Cuba, Denmark, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Panama, Sweden. Treaties are pending with Belgium and France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Prohibition Bolsters | 11/29/1926 | See Source »

Five judges had been picked, however, who all understood French and Spanish quite as well as they did English. Senor Alejandro Padilla, the newly arrived Spanish

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Oratory | 10/25/1926 | See Source »

...with top-hats a-glinting in the morning sun. Ah!-to be a diplomat! Last week Don Juan Riano y Gayangos, dean* of all Washington diplomats, Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of His Most Catholic Majesty Alfonso XIII of Spain, resigned. His place will be taken by Don Alejandro Padilla, at present the Spanish Minister at Lisbon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Dean | 8/9/1926 | See Source »

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