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...Little Otto" held, last week, his first "Royal Levee" at the old palace in Lequeitio, Spain, where he has been reared by his mother, ex-Empress and Queen Zita (TIME, Jan. 24, 1927). Well known is the fact that sympathetic, generous King Alfonso XIII of Spain contributes to the support of young "King Otto...
...Column 2, page 20. Alfonso XIII is not "weak-chinned," either as a part of his physiognomy or of his character. Within his kingly prerogatives and the limitations both of Constitution and precedent, he conforms. Outside of that he has on numerous occasions shown strength of character and purpose...
...news tips reached Manhattan, last week, that slender, weak-chinned King Alfonso XIII had asserted himself, at last, over Spain's paunchy and ruthless Dictator, General Don Miguel Primo de Rivera. The Associated Press thought that soon Don Miguel "may be replaced"; and other news services carried similar stories...
Appointments and commissions filled William Howard Taft's years-the Philippine Commission, first Governor of the Philippines, a conference with Pope Leo XIII. President Roosevelt made him secretary of War in 1904-an amiable Mars indeed who made empiric yet cherubic sidetrips to Cuba, Panama and Porto Rico. Wherever he went, he acquired weight and respect...
fears twinkled in the eyes of King Alfonso XIII of Spain last week. He was standing in Euston Station, London. He was listening to Spanish Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, the Marquis de Merry del Val.* As he listened, the tears trickled down his olive cheeks, and correspondents counted three...