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Meanwhile, while El Caudillo publicly attended victory parades here & there throughout Spain, he was privately attending to internal troubles: > The struggle between monarchists and fascists reappeared, and the royalists received a setback when Minister of Education Pedro Sainz Rodriguez, an ardent monarchist, was dismissed from his post. He was also deprived of his membership in Spain's only political party and of his seat in the national council of the party. Evidently Senor Sainz had urged restoration of the monarchy too emphatically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Farewell | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

General. Behind General Marshall's visit was a story of German intrigue and U. S. counter-intrigue. Führer Hitler had invited General Pedro Aurelio Goes Monteiro, Brazilian Chief of Staff, to visit Berlin. The Führer was prepared to shower the General with compliments, among them the honor of marching down Unter den Linden at the head of a specially picked regiment of Nazi troops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Visitors | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

What manner of soul has Al Capone, only he and his Lord know. In the Terminal Island prison in San Pedro Bay, California (whither he was transferred last January), the nation's most notorious criminal attends Roman Catholic Mass, confesses his sins regularly. But, like most prisoners, who will do anything to get out of their cells, he also attends Protestant and Christian Science services. Last month a Baptist minister thought he saw a chance for Al Capone's soul, and plucked it forthrightly. The Rev. Silas A. Thweatt (rhymes with "bleat") of San Pedro, detailed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Bitter Thweatt | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...voice of The Living God-whose words are mostly verbatim from the Gospels-is that of Actor Pedro de Cordoba, good Roman Catholic. The reporter is Walter Connolly. Oldtime Cinemactress Mary Carr (Over the Hill) plays an old woman, selling palm leaves at a church, who guides the reporter back to Jerusalem. What he sees there he tells with straightforward reverence. His description of the Crucifixion is considerably less lurid than that of the French original (soon to be published in translation by Sheed & Ward). Excerpt from the NBC version...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Living God | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

...PEDRO DE LA TORRE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 13, 1939 | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

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