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Thus people realized, last week, the unique continuity of Grand Inquisitor Torquemada's work in Spain. Queen Isabella was no more and possibly less pious than His Most Catholic Majesty King Alfonso XIII, now ousted (TIME, April 27). In every crisis Alfonso XIII turned for intercession to the Holy Virgin. When a Cabinet was sworn in by His Majesty it was always before the Crucifix and two twinkling candles (TIME, March 2). He never permitted Protestants to build places of worship in Spain in the form of a church or to advertise or indicate by any sign the places where...
King Alphonso XIII of Spain, whose name had been put on a ticket presumably for a joke. He got a $500 consolation prize...
Engaged. The Infanta Beatriz Isabel Federica Alfonsa Eugenia Cristina Maria Teresa Bienvenida Ladislaa, 21, daughter of King Alfonso XIII; and Don Alvaro Antonio Carlos Felipe Fernando of Orleans, 21, son of her father's cousin; at Fontainebleau, France...
...Year"). To the world Press and to a throng of the faithful assembled last week at the Vatican for the occasion was handed another long document, an official resume of Quadragesima Anno, Pius XI's encyclical on the social and industrial world of today, amplifying and interpreting Leo XIII's. Finally, a throne and microphone of gold and silver were set up in the Courtyard of St. Damascus and the Pope came forth in person to address the workers and employers of the world...
...wayside. After college and the War he and Wilson went to Manhattan to play the literary game, ran Vanity Fair together, published a partnered book, The Undertaker's Garland. Then Wilson went on to higher things, Bishop to France and Italy. He lives near Paris in a Louis XIII house. Many Thousands Gone (containing the Scribner $5,000-prize story of that title) is his second book. His first: Green Fruit (poems...