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...First move was to make another of those sober, resigned, high minded statements which are so useful in re-establishing the prestige of deposed monarchs. This one was given to the world by Marques de Luca de Tena, editor of the Royalist Madrid daily, A. B. C. Said King Alfonso to Marques de Tena...
...Second move was to hold a series of lengthy secret conferences in Paris, send the Marques de Tena hotfoot off to Madrid to beg the various Royalist groups in Spain to forget their differences for the time being and present a united front in the forthcoming June elections under that weepy eyed, white whiskered old gentleman, Jose Sanchez Guerra, Prime Minister shortly before the Dictatorship of Primo de Rivera...
Alfonso's third move was to let it be known?unofficially?that he would give up his own rights to the throne, not in favor of his easy bleeding firstborn, the Prince of the Asturias, nor in favor of his deaf-mute second son Don Jaime, but in favor of his third son, 17-year-old Don Juan Carlos, a cadet last week in the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, Devonshire...
...abandoning the classics requirement for the A.B. degree Yale has made another of those breaks with the past which have gone so far to modify traditional university education in recent years. The move erases an obviously illogical provision which made the attainment of the Bachelor of Arts degree depend on the number of years spent on Latin or Greek regardless of whether a man majored in chemistry or fine arts...
...business world still fought to maintain the theory of which he had become the Symbol. But last week he knew that the greatest subject in business today is whether or not wages must come down, that many financiers (historically his opponents) are paving the way for such a move. Henry Ford has given no real opinion on the subject lately. Last week, however, two smart Detroit writers for the Wall Street Journal, Philip Hanna and Harold Gronseth, put together what they knew of his policy, wrote it as if coming from a spokesman. They said that Mr. Ford stands firm...