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...Havana, police raided a hotel, found pretty Señorita Librada Aida Aspuru lying naked on a bed in a darkened room, were informed she had been living there four years, her board and lodging paid for by Señor José Gregorio Silva. Protested she: "I didn't know anything about this World, and I don't want to know anything about it. I want to live alone, to be let alone, and to live in darkness." Said Señor Silva, confirming her story: "She has been suffering an hysteria of sadness. ... I am doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 16, 1936 | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

...Francisco Chronicle, the Se attle Times and the Portland Oregonian have managed to be strongly pro-Landon without being rabidly anti-Roosevelt. Despite the fact that its Roy Roberts and Lacy Haynes are Alf Landon's closest advisers, the Kansas City Star has gone so far as to criticize mildly the Republican Nominee's tariff views...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Political Press | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

Although your reviewer probably used the word because it was spoken by Señora Moreno (Pauline Frederick) in the film, I believe it cannot rightly be applied to a California Indian woman. Certainly its use is resented and regarded as an insult by Indians of many tribes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 26, 1936 | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

...Greeks. All this was news to most of the assembled Dukes and Duchesses in Balmoral last week, for such scenes have been rigidly kept from the British newspaper-reading and newsreel-viewing public by a form of British self-censorship which in the circumstances is lèse majest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Crown: Oct. 5, 1936 | 10/5/1936 | See Source »

Last week His Holiness Pope Pius XI turned from the contemplation of troubled Spain to accord honor in the New World to a city once piously named El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de Los Angeles. There he created a new archbishopric, first to be organized in the U. S. in 43 years. From the Province of San Francisco (established in 1853) the Supreme Pontiff detached Bishop Philip George Scher and 98,000 Catholics of the diocese of Monterey-Fresno. From the Province of Santa Fe (established 1850) he de tached Bishop Daniel James Gercke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: 16th Archdiocese | 10/5/1936 | See Source »

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