Word: xiii
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many modifications which have been suggested for the calendar which Pope Gregory XIII gave the world in 1582, only two have any great current following. The International Fixed Calendar League, one of the hobbies of the late George Eastman, is for a year of 13 months with 28 days each, plus an extra holiday every Dec. 29 and a Leap Day on June 29 in Leap Years. The World Calendar Association favors a twelve month year with equal quarters in which the first, fourth, seventh and tenth months would have 31 days, the rest 30 days, plus a Year...
Three years ago Luis Quintanilla was a great man in Madrid. A burning revolutionist all his life, he plotted ardently for the overthrow of Alfonso XIII and with his own hands ran up the first Republican flag over the Royal Palace. Socialist Indalecio Prieto was Minister of Finance then and commissioned Luis Quintanilla to paint huge frescoes on the walls of the Casa del Pueblo and the great new University City out at Moncloa Park. Free-spending Prieto lost his job and Spain swung farther to the Right. Fearing a Fascist dictatorship, perhaps even a restoration of the Bourbon Monarchy...
Engaged. The Infanta Beatrix Isabel Federica Alfonsa Eugenia Christina Maria Teresa Bienvenida Ladislaa, 25, eldest daughter of onetime King Alfonso XIII of Spain; and Prince Alessandro Torlonia, 23, of Rome, son of Manhattan's Mrs. Elsie Moore Torlonia...
Within a period of a few hours Spanish Monarchists were thunderstruck by three despatches: 1) The rich and curvesome young Cuban wife of Spain's sickly one-time heir to the throne, Alfonso, who abdicated his rights to marry her, had just deserted him. 2) Alfonso XIII was rumored to have made in Rome the first move in his long-rumored project of obtaining from Mother Church an annulment of his marriage to ex-Queen Victoria of Spain, first cousin of George V. 3) Prince Juan, on whom Spanish Royalists now pin their hopes as "the only available...
...their unbounded disgust, army, navy and civil guards stayed loyal. At least 400 were killed, 1.500 wounded in the bloodiest week-end the Republic has seen. What caused this revolt to fail, like all the others that have shaken the country since the fall of Alfonso XIII, was a complete lack of organization...