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...election. The headless Church coasted along till the Cabinet should come to reason. Last month the Government capitulated, promised that the concordat would be dropped. Within a week the Premier and Cabinet members were received back into the Orthodox Church, the election was held, three candidates for Patriarch selected. Regent Prince Paul chose a Patriarch-Gabriel, Metropolitan of Montenegro, 57, stanch patriot, Wartime Red Cross worker, Montenegrin leader in the post-War formation of Yugoslavia. Patriarch Gabriel will enjoy the fruit of the Church's victory by agreement-the Government must consult him next time it plans any negotiations...
Pretender Xavier, only 48, went bustling down from Paris to Salamanca "for the purpose of investing Franco as Regent" (i. e., as a Carlist Regent). After the Generalissimo and the Prince conferred, it was announced they had agreed "on the necessity of uniting all Spaniards worthy of the name on a basis of national and traditional principles...
University of Minnesota Regent Pierce Butler (now an Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court) picked up the telephone in his Minneapolis law office one September day in 1917, angrily demanded that University President Marion LeRoy Burton call the Board of Regents together at once. A young law clerk in Butler's office named Elmer Austin Benson pricked up his ears when he heard his chief shout the name "Schaper...
...Osborne had conceived a Mickey Mouse comic strip episode in which a Duke Varlott plots to gain the mythical throne of Medioka from his under-age nephew, King Michael. The Mickey Mouse strip is distributed by Hearst King Features Syndicate, one of whose clients is the Belgrade Politika. First Regent of Yugoslavia today is Prince Paul, first cousin once removed of King Peter, a minor, an analogy to the Mickey Mouse comic which few foreign papers failed to draw when fortnight ago Mickey Mouse was suppressed from Politika by the Government for two days. Unfortunately for Reporter Harrison, his story...
...drama was completed last week as 20 persons, none of importance, witnessed the second marriage of the young man who might have been Regent and perhaps later Emperor celebrated quietly in a small chapel atop the Kahlenberg. Mourned the Jewish-owned New York Times: "By his new marriage the Prince has sealed his fate as a possible leader of a compromise movement between clerico-fascism on the Italian model and pure German Naziism, since his bride is of Jewish descent...