Word: xiii
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italian liner Conte di Savoia a regal lady who in fact did not want what the rest secretly crave, and who found no difficulty whatever in avoiding it. A granddaughter of British Queen Victoria is gracious ousted Spanish Queen Victoria Eugenie whose loose-lipped, loose-living husband Alfonso XIII never abdicated and stands a chance of being restored in Madrid as King should the White armies win Spain's present civil war (see p. 20). Last week Her Majesty, traveling as "the Duchess of Toledo," arrived on the tragic errand of rushing to the bedside of her eldest...
...Manhattan court, it was revealed that pale, limping, hemophilic Alfonso Pio Cristino Eduardo Francisco Guillermo Carlos Enrique Eugenio Fernando Antonio Venancio, the Count of Covadonga, 29, eldest son of deposed Alfonso XIII of Spain, technical adviser and salesman with Manhattan's defunct British Motors, Ltd., had pledged part of his share of the Span ish crown jewels as security against loans of "considerable sums...
...once Finance Minister under Dictator Primo de Rivera and Alfonso XIII, followed his King into exile, returned to Spain under an amnesty of the Republic. He was taken from his home and butchered by uniformed members of the Government's own Assault Guards. Though these assassins admittedly acted without President Azana's knowledge, their crime showed that the most violent Left terrorism was now operating in the shadow of the Government itself. In Right opinion, the Republic had ceased to uphold republican order or republican rights and the first broadside issued by forces of the Revolution said they...
...north, still more paradoxically, General Mola, who served under several of King Alfonso's Cabinets and is supposed to have the most Monarchist leanings of any commander in the Revolution, continued his refusal to have anything to do with Alfonso XIII's heir Prince Juan, whom he recently sent packing out of Spain (TIME, Aug. 17). The exiled King, who is at pains to keep repeating that he never abdicated, was at Dellach in Austria for the mournful second anniversary last week of the death of his youngest son, Gonzalo, in a motor accident. Said...
...Well-known is the difficulty Italian prelates experience with English and Irish names. The late great James Cardinal Gibbons used to tell how Pope Leo XIII called him "Jibbons...