Word: xiii
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...since the War, foreign consuls in socialistic Hamburg wore diplomatic uniforms at a Bolivar ceremony in the Rathaus, were told that similar ceremonies were going on at the same time in Paris, Rome, Brussels. Spain. With an insidious revolution gnawing at his throne, all Spain under martial law, Alfonso XIII celebrated Bolivar Day in Madrid by riding in an open carriage under a skeleton guard to attend the memorial mass at the Church of San Francisco...
THURSDAY, JANUARY 29 (XIII...
...Helen Lee Eames, debutante stepdaughter of Henry Latham Doherty, potent oil-utility tycoon, ordered twelve Ford sport cabriolets which she will give to friends after painting silhouets on the cars "to personalize the owner's individuality." First car she embellished with horses & hounds, sent to sporting King Alfonso XIII of Spain who, last year, helped rescue a school friend of Miss Eames after she had suffered an equestrian mishap near Madrid. William Ashley ("Billy") Sunday...
Spain's Alfonso XIII ordered crown warrants issued for arrest on charges of lese-majeste of leaders of the "Republican Alliance," new and threatening federation of the largest of the 22 little Spanish "splinter parties" which have raged impotently for a Republic...
...modernism." At the beginning of the century he was teaching theology in St. Bernard's Seminary, Rochester, N. Y. (where he was born). He had studied at Rome, Cambridge and Munich and there had absorbed much of the modernized philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas (Thornism), philosophy which Pope Leo XIII (1878-1903) approved. But Thomism leads, if unrestrained, to dangerous questioning of Roman Catholic dogma, to what Leo's successor Pius X (1903-14) called pernicious "modernism...