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...steps of the Royal Palace in Bucharest bounded Dr. Maniu with a stride swift and confident to the point of indecorum. Pompously the Three Regents of Rumania, who reign for Boy King Mihai, bade Peasant Maniu welcome and requested him to take steps to form a Cabinet...
...chose to wed the little Danish princess. There is no question that they were infatuated. But he was stricken with paralysis before the nuptials could take place. On his death bed the Grand Duke Nicholas called in his fiancee and his bull-necked brother, the Grand Duke Alexander, and bade them wed. They obeyed...
...Angel of the Lord bade Moses tell his people that when the Passover came they should sacrifice lambs and smear their doors with the blood, that the Angel of Death, passing by, might know where righteous men lived. Long after the death of Moses, Jews celebrated their Passover with the death of lambs; and in the ghettos of walled cities, there were bloody marks upon the doors. In the Middle Ages, when the Jews were hated most bitterly by Christians, the legend arose that the blood upon their doors was that of Christian children whom Jews deemed the most suitable...
After the cameramen were through, the President bade the word-reporters draw near...
...still as the Secretary of Commerce that Mr. Hoover received newsgatherers one final time. In a three-minute speech he thanked them for their patience and industry in making public the doings of the Department. "We thought we had a gospel to preach here," he said. He bade adieu to his heads of bureaus in a choked voice...