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Rumored the richest Spaniard, certainly one of the saddest, is old Count de Romanones. He arranged the flight of Alfonso XIII (TIME, April 27). He put Queen Victoria Eugenie, the ailing Crown Prince and the rest of the Spanish Royal Family on a train at Madrid and said the last goodbye. As their glory and his reflected glory faded, the Count sat stunned by his emotions on a railway station bench. Last week Count de Romanones rose courageously in the Socialist and savagely antiMonarchist National Assembly. For perhaps the last time Monarchist de Romanones defended with all his forensic skill...
...Chicago Art Institute is proud that its annual exhibition not only has what is reputed to be the largest, most elaborate opening in the world, but also that it pays its prizewinners the richest rewards in the U. S.: $7,500. Last week U. S. museum directors were startled to learn how an amateur with a pocket camera could win $16,500 in art prizes by one snap of his shutter...
Perpetually pinched for money, kept close under their father's thumb are the two oldest sons of the "Richest Man in the World," His Exalted Highness the Nizam of Hyderabad. To a sporting acquaintance at Gleneagles, Scotland, last summer the Crown Prince of Hyderabad stated his views on marriage thus: "I like horses. They are more dependable than women. If a horse throws you it will stand by until you get on your feet...
...When the richest university in the country is reduced to such false economy, it is time...
...onetime Minister to China Charles Richard Crane; of heart disease after a nervous breakdown; on his 58th birthday; in Manhattan. A philanthropist, giver of $10,000,000 worth of Crane stock to his employes, President Crane with a reputed fortune of $50,000,000 was rated Chicago's second richest man (next to Board Chairman Julius Rosenwald of Sears, Roebuck...