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...might shrewdly claim that his estates in Czechoslovakia ought not to have been confiscated. He could point triumphantly to a clause in the Treaty which says that, in case of dispute, the French text shall prevail. Such a person is the Archduke Friedrich, onetime Austro-Hungarian Feldmarschall, beloved as "Papa Fried-rich," and now resident in that hotbed of royalists, Budapest. It was "Papa Friedrich's" $125,000,000 estates (long since confiscated by Czechoslovakia) which were being wrangled over at The Hague...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: Papa Friedrich Preferred | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

Attorneys arguing for the Czechoslovak Republic brushed aside any distinction between "royal" and "regnant." Was a case involving $125,000,000 to be decided by the splitting of a hair? Besides everyone knows that "Papa Friedrich's" son, the Archduke Albrecht (TIME, Nov. 29, 1926), is one of several pretenders to the vacant Throne of Hungary. How preposterous, then, is any claim that the Archducal estates should not have been confiscated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: Papa Friedrich Preferred | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

Another ritual the author witnessed: garbed as half man, half woman in a ruffled shirt, cutaway coat, silk hat, and cigar stub, Papa Nebo, an hermaphrodite, wrought mysteries with corpses, pronounced the oracle of the dead. Other corpses, zombies, worked in the cane fields, strictly supervised. To a white they seemed rather like gaunt imbeciles with their keeper. But how was it that often blacks had seen their relatives buried, only to find them weeks later in servitude as zombies? In the criminal code Author Seabrook found the weird explanation. Such are the African intimacies that share popularity with Roman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Goat Moaned, Girl Bleated | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

...Tommy, all great men are modest. Tell papa that Ethel really did most of your arithmetic. There's the good modest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Morgan Accepts | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

Paramount's Papa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paramount's Papa | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

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