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...Paul-Boncour, onetime French Foreign Minister and perennial delegate to the League of Nations, had to leave his compartment on the Paris-Hague express when a broken pipe suddenly drenched him with steam. Quipped a colleague: "You have just rendered impromptu homage to Finland by taking a Finnish steam bath...
...exhorted to "exercise every economy" in the use of fuel. The stores were shy of fresh meat. Water was cut off here & there. "Something" happened to the pipes at Buckingham Palace and it was said that for a whole day His Majesty King George VI had to forego a bath. London suburbanites took hours to get to & from work...
Headed by Dr. Francis Underhill, then Dean of Rochester, now Bishop of Bath & Wells, the committee took testimony from psychic researchers, both believers and skeptics. Some committeemen secretly attended séances. Nine months ago the committee had its report ready. To the great dismay not only of His Grace of Canterbury but of his colleague the Archbishop of York, the report was not unfavorable to Spiritualism. That, at least, was the conclusion Spiritualists drew when it became known last month that the report had been suppressed. Said Fred Hawken, secretary of the Marylebone Spiritualist Association: "I am confident that...
...Bishop of Bath & Wells, hardly a dealer in magic and spells,* was said by Spiritualists last week to be "sympathetic or at least fair" toward Spiritualism. Another committeeman, Very Rev. Walter Robert Matthews, Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, hinted at the tone of the report when he told the Society for Psychical Research that, discounting fraud and illusion, there remained a residuum of fact suggesting the possibility of life after death...
...Saturday morning in May 1933, two young men pushed their way past the maid into the home of H. F. McElroy, Kansas City city manager and "front" for the Pendergast machine, and rushed upstairs. McElroy's daughter, Mary, was taking a bath. They shouted for her to get dressed and come out, or they would shoot through the door. Terrified, Mary obeyed. They seized her, bundled her downstairs and into...