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...firewood with her sister Marie and a friend named Jeanne. When they reached the icy river Gave de Pau the other two waded in but Bernadette fearfully hung back. Then, she recounted later, she heard a terrific rumbling, a rushing as of wind. In a nearby grotto she beheld a golden cloud in which appeared a "beautiful lady," in a blue-sashed white gown, a rosary and gold crucifix hanging from her arm. The "lady" smiled, said nothing, disappeared. Bernadette called to her companions but they only laughed, said they had heard and seen nothing...
...next witness was not so explicit as Mr. Raskob, but the Senators eyed him much more curiously. He was not only the manager of a syndicate which had cleared $12,000,000 without putting up I? but also the biggest stock and grain speculator that the Senators had yet beheld. Spare, white-haired, slightly deaf Arthur William Cutten sat with his hand cupped behind his ear throughout most of the long interrogation on the great Sinclair Consolidated Oil pool of 1928-29. Unsmiling he peered through his spectacles at Inquisitor Pecora whom he could not hear half the time...
...development which has raised gooseflesh on the sensitive epidermis of these moguls is the news that the government will subpoena forty bank presidents so that they may shed some verbal illumination on their financial practices. An added horror was lent to the announcement, when the financiers beheld their fellow martyr, Mr. Harvey L. Carke, most unwillingly damning himself by his own testimony, and when they shudderingly recollected the amazing confessions dragged from Mr. Wiggin and Mr. Morgan on the same stand. While Mr. Clarke could not compare with Mr. Wiggin in the variety and scale of his operations he nevertheless...
...John McDowell, one-armed moderator of the Presbyterian Church, has been making a moderatorial tour of the Northwest. Fortnight ago when he reached Aberdeen, S. Dak. he beheld with pleasure the following notice in the Aberdeen Evening News...
...Treaty of Lausanne, all Turkish education is controlled by Turkey's Government. U. S.-founded and U. S.-supported, Robert College must teach the official Turkish history in Turkish. Robert's teachers must be satisfactory to the Ministry of Education. When the Ministry beheld the School & Society article it grew choleric, telegraphed Dean Fisher -en route from a vacation in the U. S.-that he would not be readmitted to historic old Turkey. Robert officials were confident last week they could get him reinstated. Dean since 1922, Historian Fisher was ousted in 1924 because he was supposed...