People, May 15, 1939

When Francisco Franco restored his private property, Spain's ex-King Alfonso, exiled in Rome, donned the ecclesiastical-looking robes of the Spanish Military Order, meekly said: "I am a simple soldier, obedient to the orders of Generalissimo Franco."

For more than 50 years New York's Roosevelt ladies, Republican and Democrat alike, have bought their clothes at Manhattan's Arnold Constable. (Onetime Department Manager William Kramer once paddywhacked fractious young Teddy Roosevelt, who tagged along with his mother.) Since 1929, all Anna Eleanor Roosevelt's ceremonial clothes have been designed by strapping, golden-blonde Lucille Mahoney, Arnold Constable's...

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