Word: xiii
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...repeated the words of Leo XIII's encyclical, "Libertas" (1888): "The Church does not disapprove of any of the various forms of government, provided they be per se capable of securing the good of the citizens...
...pretender had some solid grounds for hope-Don Juan of Bourbon, 31, only non-hemophilic son of Spain's late ex-King Alfonso XIII. From his Swiss villa on Lake Geneva, where he will stay until the skiing season opens, the Infante made it known that he was against "totalitarian policies," was "calmly and confidently" waiting for a call to Madrid. He had reason. Britain might right royally welcome a monarch in that bulwark of Empire, Spain...
...head, charged him with "not having said Mass for six years, of blaspheming, of not wearing long robes ... of fornication with his mustachioed old housekeeper." He disappeared for a year, reappeared briefly in Rome on a prancing white stallion to cast his vote in the election of Pope Innocent XIII. By then he was almost forgotten by the warring powers. At the age of 88, Alberoni died, leaving behind him a seminary for the education of indigent student priests, a plan for the federation of Europe...
Born. To Prince Alessandro Torlonia, 31, and Princess Beatriz Torlonia, 34, eldest daughter of the late ex-King Al fonso XIII of Spain : a daughter, Olympia, their fourth child; somewhere in Switzer land...
Ralph 124C 41+ and Immortality. Born in Luxembourg, Hugo took an electric bell apart at the age of six. At 13 he was allowed to install a telephone system in a Luxembourg convent (he says he got a special dispensation to enter it from Pope Leo XIII). At 22, having moved to Manhattan, he built one of the first amateur wireless transmitters with which he could ring a bell a quarter of a mile away. But then Hugo's imagination began outstripping his technical resources...