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...unexpected guest in 1923 at a Versailles fete which raised only $5,000 to restore the French Bourbon kings' crumbling Versailles and Trianon palaces, John D. Rockefeller Jr. was shocked by their state of decay, gave the Comité $1,000,000. His workmen did a thorough Rockefeller job of repair. Later Mr. Rockefeller gave $2,080,000 more, some of it to restore the War-shelled Cathedral of Reims and to put the château of Fontainebleau in shape...
TIME would be loath to cause a Kentuckian to reach for his hip pocket, unless he were merely toting a pint of Kentucky's famed bourbon. Nevertheless, modernistic though its clubhouse may be, the industrial and low-rent residential neighborhood surrounding Louisville's Churchill Downs makes that celebrated race course seem shabby indeed...
...repeating the same story: Weeks of excited shouting that Adolf Hitler was preparing another armed coup in Austria had finally roused Great Britain. Sir Austen Chamberlain, accompanied by Lord & Lady Astor, was in Vienna officially on a vacation trip. To informed observers, however, it was heavily significant that the Bourbon wedding was the chance of a lifetime to confer with all Austria's leading royalists at once. Sir Austen was supposed to have brought word from London that as a last resort against a Nazi Putsch in Austria, Britain was ready to back the restoration of Pretender Otto...
...into a wholly unnecessary war. ... It was the first instance of that effective use of newspaper propaganda on a large scale which has become one of the most familiar features of the twentieth century." Mrs. Older: "Hearst was the flaming crusader for the Pearl of the Antilles. He challenged Bourbon tyranny. He determined to drive Spain from this hemisphere. . . . Without Hearst Cuba might still be under the heel of Spain...
Married. Infante Alphonse of Bourbon-Caserta, 34, nephew of Spain's deposed King Alfonso XIII; and Princess Alice of Bourbon-Parma, 18, niece of Austria's deposed Empress Zita; in Vienna...