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...Rochester, N. Y. a quiet old lady who dresses mostly in black was told that her son had become President. ''I am very happy to hear the news," said Mrs. Catherine Wheelwright. She bore Eamon de Valera where Manhattan's Chrysler Building stands today. The President's father (a Spaniard) is dead and so is his stepfather, Mr. Wheelwright. Several times Eamon de Valera has visited his old mother in Rochester...
...these women Senor de Madariaga promptly become Hero of the Hour. Promptly Sir John Simon and Chief U. S. Delegate Hugh Gibson went into action, tearing the gallant Spaniard's proposal to tatters, forcing the Conference Steering Committee to rule against him and to rule the miscellaneous women...
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...
Sixteenth Century Spaniards, to whom the Carib Indians although tortured would not tell the source of their gold ornaments, imagined a place of gold, El Dorado, at the headwaters of the Orinoco River. No known Spaniard nor other white, until last month, ever reached the Orinoco's source. Then Dr. Herbert Spencer Dickey of Tippecanoe City, Ohio* and Manhattan, his bright-eyed, hard-muscled little wife, and four men companions, after a three-month struggle up the hot, muggy Orinoco, reached the top of a "gigantic" peak of the Parima Mountains. From here they saw the second largest river...
...efforts of political propagandists to make the Spaniard feel like a citizen have failed. He feels like a man. ... It follows that the social structure of Spain is bound to be lax, like that of a body the several members of which are stronger than the force of cohesion which keeps them together. . . . No one who knows Spain can have failed to be struck by the impressive amount of individual effort lost in activities at cross purposes or, even worse, in vacua...