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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...also. She has dark eyes and hair like her father. Her sister, Infanta Maria Christina, is fair like her mother, Queen Victoria. . . . It is said that King Alfonso is anxious to marry his favorite child, Infanta Beatriz, now 18, to her first cousin, Prince Alfonso of Bourbon-Sicily whose portrait you give in TIME. He is the son of King Alfonso's dead sister and is a fine, dashing young officer. If he should then be declared heir to the throne, King Alfonso's daughter Beatriz would eventually become Queen of Spain. You make a mistake in thinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 10, 1927 | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

Last week, for the second time in its entire existence, the Canadian Senate congratulated one of its members on the 100th anniversary of his birth by presenting him with a portrait of himself. The hoary Senator is the Honorable George Casimir Dessaulles of St. Hyacinthe; his birthplace, Province of Quebec...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Centenarian Senator | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

...navy blue cover there appeared not a portrait of Premier Dictator Joseph Pilsudski, or of President Ignatz Moscicki, or of Ignatz Paderewski, or Joseph Conrad, or Tadeusz Andzrezej Bonawentura Kosciuszko but an action picture of Gilda Gray.* "Polish dancer." Poles, incensed, took umbrage at such terpsichorean levity in their favorite periodical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Maga. zine | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

...most recent and one of the most prized gift is a calfskin safe deposit box, once the property of Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw of Massachusetts, and containing various legal papers. Among the contents are a bank bill portrait of Chief Justice Shaw and a number of autographed letters of the great justice, including one to Governor Edward Everett, written in 1839, and indorsing John Knapp for election to a state office...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUSEUM TO HOLD LEGAL TREASURES | 10/8/1927 | See Source »

Gainsborough will be among the artists whose work finds a place in the Law School collection. His portrait of Sir Thomas Plummer was purchased by the Law School two weeks before his "Blue Boy" brought a price of $200,000 at an English sale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUSEUM TO HOLD LEGAL TREASURES | 10/8/1927 | See Source »

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