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...told the King that the situation was even graver than he thought!" flashed former Prime Minister Jose Sanchez Guerra, leader of an abortive plot two years ago to overthrow the Dictatorship (TIME, Feb. 11, 1929). "His Majesty came forward and clasped me in his arms, saying, 'It is good to see you, Jose...
...Count de Romanones expected to be called as Prime Minister, King Alfonso fooled him next day by jollying into office the old rebel around whom he had flung his arms, Jose Sanchez Guerra. Said he, after a second visit to the palace: "The King flattered me with eulogistic phrases. I expressed my thanks and shall attempt to form a cabinet satisfactory to his desires." Asked if his cabinet would call a Constitutional Convention, he replied: "Doubtless, but you ask the program of a government which is not yet formed...
...square on the floor of a Manhattan armory, 50 chessboards had been set up. Behind each board sat four men. In the middle of the square, alone against 200, stood a dapper, rather handsome man with keen eyes and a high forehead. He was the great Capa-Jose Raoul Capablanca-onetime chess champion of the world, newly returned to the U. S. after playing for two years abroad. He was competing with more players at once than any chess master had ever tried before;* it looked as if the job was too hard for him. Right at the start...
...Rochester, N. Y. last week Senor Jose W. Kelly, onetime Mexican labor attache, was knocked down by an automobile, rushed to a hospital suffering from loss of his ability to speak English. In Spanish puzzled Senor Kelly explained that until run over he could speak English well. In 1908 he was graduated from Cornell University where he spoke English in all his classes. Rochester doctors could not explain...
Books. Anyone who reads Spanish should read these outstanding Cuban .books: Novelist Cirilo Villaverde's Cecilia Valdes; Poet Jose Maria Heredia's Niagara; Scientist Carlos de la Torre's Historia Natural de Cuba...