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...this fabulous gift there were bound to be strings. Otto will have to keep his museum open to the public. And, since it is unlikely that he will be allowed to sell or borrow against his museum's collections, his new-found wealth will remain largely titular. But that Archduke Otto had every intention of collecting in person was made evident last week in a letter he wrote to the peasant villages of Edelsgrub and Premstaetten, which recently made him an honorary citizen. Announcing again his desire to return from exile to Austria, he wrote...
Bankers big & little know perfectly well that their titular leader at this time should be above reproach, unjustified though the reproach may be. But many feel Banker Hecht's long devotion to ABA affairs should be duly rewarded. No one denies that the swart little Bavarian from Ansbach with the slick black hair and the cropped mustache is a banker born. After a short training in Chicago he went to New Orleans, was a bank president at 33. But whether the ABA will break tradition to pass by Mr. Hecht at 49 is likely to be a hot question when...
...police bullets. Such journalistic antics were unknown on the sedate Journal while Luke Lea owned it. But with onetime Publisher Lea in a North Carolina prison, the newspaper's control has been vested in the remote, impersonal hands of New Orleans' Canal Bank & Trust Co. and the present titular owner, Nat G. Taylor, son of Tennessee's late Governor. Meanwhile the editorial staff has delighted in doing as it pleases. City Editor Minis Thomason not only wrote and signed the lead story of the killing of the gunman, but proudly printed his own picture with...
...Highness Padukka Mahasari Manulana Hadji Mohammad Jamalul Kiram, 67-year-old Sultan of Sulu, ruler in the 25th generation of a dynasty which claims descent from Alexander the Great, titular head of all the Moslems of the Sulu Archipelago and British North Borneo, onetime suitor of "Princess Alice" Roosevelt Longworth, only Mohammedan autocrat under the U. S. flag, lost his seat in Philippine Senate when Governor General Frank Murphy failed to reappoint...
Father O'Hara did not want the job. Titular vice president and acting president of Notre Dame during President O'Donnell's year of illness, he had already announced that he would rather keep on being the university's prefect of religion. But the Roman Catholic authority which made the choice of a new president so smooth and peaceful rests on unhesitating obedience. Father O'Hara accepted his orders without protest...