Word: xiii
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ignominiously back to France last week went Prince Juan, 23, youngest and healthiest of Alfonso XIII's sons, heir to the empty throne. Last fortnight he had rushed to Rebel General Mola to offer his services, was refused...
...Revolution. While Frenchmen assume that of course a foreigner is lucky to be in France at any price, Spaniards haughtily consider the tourist a fool for not staying at home. Greatest Spanish feat along this line was to build at stupendous cost in the days of King Alfonso XIII the finest network of concrete roads outside the U. S. and then omit to spend the few additional millions on advertising which would have made them teem with tourist cars. His Majesty personally did more to encourage tourists than has any other King or Emperor, would stop and shake hands with...
Born. To Don Juan Carlos, Prince of Asturias, 23, youngest living son of Spain's onetime King Alfonso XIII; and Princess Maria Mercedes of Bourbon-Sicily, 25; an 8-lb. daughter; in Cannes, France. Name: Maria del Pilar...
Another time Peter II asked his Spanish great-aunt, the Infanta Beatrice, cousin by marriage of ousted Alfonso XIII, "What is a revolution...
...Named Azadia after a section of Washington's Rock Creek Park which was once the family estate, she signs her paintings Azadia. Of Sitter Garner she recalled: "He called me 'little lady' and gave me a long talk about caring for my teeth." Crowned Queen Shenandoah XIII of the annual Shenandoah Valley Apple Blossom Festival at Winchester, Va. was pretty, brunette Cornelia Ann Larus, 20, daughter of Richmond Tobacco Tycoon Lewis Griffin Larus (Edgeworth...