Word: xiii
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Appointments and commissions filled William Howard Taft's years-the Philippine Commission, first Governor of the Philippines, a conference with Pope Leo XIII. President Roosevelt made him secretary of War in 1904-an amiable Mars indeed who made empiric yet cherubic sidetrips to Cuba, Panama and Porto Rico. Wherever he went, he acquired weight and respect...
fears twinkled in the eyes of King Alfonso XIII of Spain last week. He was standing in Euston Station, London. He was listening to Spanish Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, the Marquis de Merry del Val.* As he listened, the tears trickled down his olive cheeks, and correspondents counted three...
...lagoon. Came the slow thunder of a royal salute and its return. Then the King of All the Swedes and many a Lapp* descended to greet a tanned and sprightly Monarch, who soon landed from the Principe Alfonso. Naturally the royal visitor was His Most Catholic Majesty Alfonso XIII, King of Spain...
Meanwhile in Spain there stirred the embers of revolution which always blaze up when His Majesty leaves the country. The latest previous outburst was during Alfonso XIII's visit to George V (TIME, July 23). Last week stern Dictator of Spain Primo de Rivera caused the arrest of 4,000 persons, many prominent, and the revolt guttered. Imperturbable, the Dictator prepared to attend maneuvers of the Spanish Grand Fleet, off the Mediterranean coast of Spain, a coast which is notoriously the hotbed of Spanish revolutionaries...
...Orcoma paused at the Spanish harbor of Santander, Alfonso XIII, King of Spain, came aboard, exchanged greetings with the sick secretary who was barely able to rise from his bed chair...