Word: xiii
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Return Novarum. Forty years ago last week, the long-headed little old man in the Vatican peered out into the revolutionized industrial world and saw that all was not going to be peaceful. To 81-year-old Gioacchino Vincenzo Pecci, His Holiness Pope Leo XIII, who had been Civil Governor of Benevento and Governor of Perugia and far more a man-of-the-world than his dogmatist predecessor Pius IX, it seemed a good moment for Mother Church to say her say about social and industrial reform.' So he composed and issued a great encyclical entitled Rerum Novarum ("Concerning...
...Alfonso XIII, King of Nowhere, Duke of Toledo, was comfortably settled in his quarters in Fontainebleau last week. Correspondents who have called him the ablest politician in Spain followed his maneuvres with interest...
...Gleeful Labor M. P.'s called Alfonso XIII "Mr. Bourbon, late of Madrid" in a lively debate on the ex-King's status last week. Although Great Britain has recognized the Spanish Republic, George V insists that Alfonso XIII be called "King Alfonso" and thus far the British Government has done...
...Press last week. He had just cabled U. S. Ambassador Irwin B. Laughlin at Madrid to call at Spain's Foreign Office, extend formal recognition to the new Republic (see p. 20). Ambassador Laughlin, he added, will remain at Madrid, though officially accredited to the Court of Alfonso XIII. He acknowledged that, before acting, the U. S. had waited to see what Great Britain and France were going...
Long-jawed Alfonso XIII, as the Duke of Toledo, was in London last week to the slight embarrassment of the Labor Government. As in Paris, crowds cheered his every appearance...