Word: xiii
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charity Crucifixion Tower" which radio receipts made possible, the Bishop has declined to interfere even when he disagrees with Father Coughlin's notions. Last week, disagreeing again, he nevertheless said: "No heresy has been preached. Father Coughlin in his addresses is advocating the principles set down by Leo XIII and Pius...
...Father Coughlin's favorite pronouncements, which he has uttered in his throbbing brogue in many a Sunday broadcast, is that of Statesman Leo XIII: "Every minister of holy religion must throw into the conflict all the energy of his mind and all the strength of his endurance." Last week Father Coughlin also reminded the Press of Pius XI's strictures against "those few who . . . hold and control money ... govern credit . . . grasp, as it were, in their hands the very soul of production so that no one dares breathe against their will...
Idealists to their hot Spanish core, the revolutionists who sent King Alfonso XIII flying for his life could do no less than give Spanish women the right to vote. Last week they wished they had given them almost anything else. Too late Don Manuel Azana, a fiery feminist during his 20 dictatorial months as Premier of a Socialist Coalition government, remembered the words of the smart British-blooded spinster he made Minister of Prisons, Senorita Victoria Kent: "Spanish women are not prepared for the ballot...
...Basil Zaharoff married 55-year-old Maria del Pilar Antonia Angela Patrocinio Simona de Muguiro y Beruete, Duchess de Villa-franca de los Caballeros. Unable to divorce her insane husband Prince Francisco de Bourbon, Duke de Villafranca de los Caballeros, cousin of Alfonso XIII, for over 30 years she was Sir Basil's mistress, lived with him during her last years in the villa near Paris built by the late Leopold II, King of the Belgians, for his morganatic wife Baroness de Vaughan. Lady Zaharoff died...
Israel Edwin Leopold (Ed Wynn), president of Amalgamated Broadcasting System, organized last spring (after many postponements it began broadcasting in September), resigned his post. Announced reason: the discovery that he was a showman, not a businessman. Ota Gygi (Hun garian-born, onetime court violinist to Alfonso XIII) and Henry Goldman, businessman, who ran the company all summer while Mr. Wynn was in Hollywood, remain in charge. Ed Wynn became once more Texaco's broadcasting Fire Chief...