Word: xiii
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Charles Phelps Taft II, Episcopalian, and Pope Pius XI chatted at the Vatican, recalled the visit to the Vatican of the lawyer's late great father, William Howard Taft, sent by Roosevelt in 1902 to hold parlance with the late Pope Leo XIII...
Died. Rt. Rev. Msgr. Ramon M. Mestres, 66, longtime pastor of Carmel Mission (Calif.) where in 1899 he married Lou Henry and Herbert Clark Hoover; recipient of the Order of Isabella the Catholic from King Alfonso XIII of Spain for his restoration of Carmel Mission; after a long illness; at San Jose...
...Alfonso XIII of Spain, sailing his yacht Toribio II: a national regatta for 8-metre and 10-metre sailboats, in stormy, treacherous seas off Santander. His wife, Queen Victoria-Eugenia, was aboard the Osborne, which finished third; their sons Jaime and Juan were fifth...
...limousine collided with a small two-seater at the gate of London's Hyde Park. Out of the limousine jumped King Alfonso XIII of Spain, unhurt by flying glass. He shook hands with the young woman driver of the two-seater, handed his card to a police inspector, got back into the limousine, sped on to Bucking ham Palace, arrived punctually for lunch with King George & Queen Mary...
...annual London visit King Alfonso XIII of Spain ate his meal in his favorite Spanish restaurant in Cavendish Square, dined on an annual dish, "Salad of the Gardens of Spain." Concomitants: cold sliced chicken reposing on lemon-yellow hearts of lettuce, criss-crossed with ribbons of pimiento, topped by a mold of fruit salad-sliced oranges, large green Malaga grapes, thin strips of pineapple- all chilled and jelled in fruit juices. Gourmet Alfonso then finished the "Gardens" off with cubes of melon and succulent strawberries soaked in rare old sherry, enjoyed himself thoroughly...