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Seville prepared for Europe's most glamorous wedding of World War II-Dom Pedro d'Alcantara d'Orléans & Bragança was marrying Princess Esperanza Rocio de Bourbon-Orléans. Already the city was as jampacked with Portuguese and Spanish bluebloods (40 princes and princelings, without counting lesser aristocrats) as the Cathedral of Santa Maria de la Sede at Christmas midnight mass. Most of them were royal refugees. Some, like the Count of Paris, Pretender to the throne of France, had come from Madrid. Others, like the widowed Princess Françoise of Greece...
...families of Pretenders. The bride-young and charming-was the daughter of the Infante Don Carlos (brother-in-law of the late King Alfonso), and first Spanish princess to be married in her native land since Spain went republican. The tall, mustachioed groom was the great-grandson of Dom Pedro II, second (and last) of Brazil's brief line of Portuguese emperors. When the second Dom Pedro abdicated the Brazilian throne in favor of a republic, his family lived in France until Brazil relented in 1920, welcomed home the house of Bragança. His great-grandson takes...
General Arturo Rawson became President, ruled Argentina for almost two days. While Porteños, and the rest of the world, looked on in some amazement, the Presidential guard was changed at the double quick, and swifter than the opening of a trap door, General Pedro Ramirez succeeded President Arturo Rawson...
...relentlessly in the Times kept Los Angeles, until recent years, a strike-ridden city. It also kept the city open-shop, helped Chandler at tract the aircraft and other industries. He promoted vast Los Angeles real-estate developments, wide boulevards, Hollywood, the $60,000,000 artificial harbor at San Pedro, the Coliseum and Hollywood Bowl. Spreading his power and empire through out the Southwest, he became one of the nation's biggest landowners, one of the West's richest and most influential men. The Times (which has been actively managed since 1941 by his suave, able son Norman...
...Argentines know that she is co-owner, with her ailing, 73-year-old brother, Don Ezequiel Pedro...