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...knees (a few months before Columbus sighted America) pious Queen Isabella implored the blessing of Heaven for a royal edict by which King Ferdinand: 1) banished all Jews and other heretics from Spain; 2) decreed that his remaining subjects must actively practice the Catholic religion...
Thus people realized, last week, the unique continuity of Grand Inquisitor Torquemada's work in Spain. Queen Isabella was no more and possibly less pious than His Most Catholic Majesty King Alfonso XIII, now ousted (TIME, April 27). In every crisis Alfonso XIII turned for intercession to the Holy Virgin. When a Cabinet was sworn in by His Majesty it was always before the Crucifix and two twinkling candles (TIME, March 2). He never permitted Protestants to build places of worship in Spain in the form of a church or to advertise or indicate by any sign the places where...
Magnesians, to whom a coffee house is the equivalent of a saloon (pious Mohammedans are total abstainers), wandered wistfully about the streets, gossipped loudly, cursed Dictator Mustafa Kemal Pasha under their breath...
Squawks from U. S. Senators in Washington greeted last week the budget speech to Canada's House of Commons made by Richard Bedford Bennett, rich & pious Dominion Premier & Finance Minister. At the last election Canadians gave Mr. Bennett a mandate to up their tariffs in Uncle Sam's face. Last week Conservative Bennett upped high, upped quick...
...doors of the Elmira (N. Y.) Star-Gazette himself. It was a gesture of sentiment. Twenty-five years ago he, onetime newsboy, bought a half interest in the old Gazette from the late U. S. Senator David B. Hill, on meagre savings and smart financing. High-minded but not pious, Publisher Gannett built himself a great newspaper fortune not alone by the cleanness and honesty of his papers, of which he is so proud, but also by shrewdness, good sense and uncommon business nerve...