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...Manhattan last autumn on their way to Cuba, that frail and amiable young man was secretly suffering with an acute pain in his right rump. In Havana the outcast couple rented a modest apartment, all they could afford on the small allowance they get from onetime King Alfonso XIII, who until this year considered his heir's marriage to a Cuban commoner a sin against the royal house of Bourbon. Soon as the young people had their pantry filled and their curtains hung, they summoned Dr. Pedro A. Castillo, a general practitioner, to diagnose the rump pain. The doctor...
With ineffable humility the Son of Heaven indicated that the five best poems by commoners were to be read first-much as Alfonso XIII used personally to wash the dirty feet of twelve poor Spaniards each year on Maundy Thursday. Each Japanese commoner's poem was, however, rendered by the ceremonial chorus only once, those by Japanese Princes and Princesses of the Blood twice, and the Empress' poem three times. The poem composed by His Imperial Majesty in person was loudly, deeply and sonorously intoned once, twice, thrice, four times and yet again, in keeping with the dignity...
...general manager," said Lawyer Thompson. "He is at work now completing the organization, gathering assistants together." Some 15 local radio stations in Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin have already been signed up. Mainspring of the Insull chain is Ota Gygi, one-time court violinist to Spain's Alfonso XIII and promoter of Ed Wynn's defunct Amalgamated Broadcasting Co. According to Lawyer Thompson, President Insull "hasn't got a dollar in the company; he didn't have a dollar to put in." One sure sign of broadening popular interest in stockmarket speculation is booming activity...
Born- To the Infanta Beatriz Isabel Federica Alfonsa Eugénia Christina Maria Teresa Bienvenida Ladislaa, 26, eldest daughter of onetime King Alfonso XIII of Spain; and Prince Alessandro Torlonio 24; a daughter, their first child; in Rome. Name: Sandra Vittoria Beatrice Maria. Born. To James Roosevelt, 28; and Betsey Gushing Roosevelt: their second daughter, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's sixth grandchild; in Manhattan. Weight: 8 Ib. Name: Katharine ("Kate"). Died. Jack ("Machine Gun") McGurn, né Gebhardi, 38, reputed onetime Capone No. 1 triggerman; shot twice in the back of the head by unidentified gunmen; in a Chicago...
...Christ's statement: But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things [food, shelter, clothing] shall be added unto you. The Roman Catholic Church is opposed to Communism and Socialism insofar as they are materialistic, violent and irreligious. To Catholics the encyclicals of Popes Leo XIII and Pius XI represent the core of an ideal, workable system of economic justice. Catholics and non-chiliastic Protestants are quick to quote what is probably Christ's most equivocal remark: . . . Render therefore unto Caesar the, things which be Caesar's, and unto God the things which...