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This week, in public, the Pope would bestow upon the new cardinals their big, cartwheel-shaped red beaver hats, with 15 tassels, which each would hang in the sanctuary of his cathedral. They would kiss the papal slippers, hand and cheek, would be embraced in turn by their fellow Princes of the Church. Then, once more in secret, the Pope would present rings, perform the ceremony of "opening" and "closing" the cardinals' mouths, symbolizing the weighty matters which they were to hear and keep secret...
That Congress should be reluctant to bestow added powers upon the executive seems an odd stemming of the tide of political theory and practice. Even the English Parliament has accepted its proper fate in an economic and social emergency whose trends are too rapid for mass regulation. Centralization of authority in the hands of a Prime Minister with a clear majority in the Commons has caused no dictator baiting. But our representatives have a stubborn reluctance to admit that their own leadership in the crisis has vacillated long enough, and cling pitiably to the purse strings which have of late...
...many fields of endeavor to which Dr. Abbott Lawrence has for half a century dedicated his talents leave to commentators a generous variety of laurels and bays to bestow...
...much, General!" Next morning at least 100,000 citizens of Tokyo massed round the railway station at 7 a. m. when Conqueror Honjo's special train chuffed in. On the platform stood princes of the Royal House, six Cabinet Ministers and the Imperial Chamberlain who solemnly stepped forward to bestow on General Honjo the divine welcome of the "Son of Heaven," Emperor Hirohito...
...Japanese came to his home bearing incense which they burned in the Presence. Burners included Prince Tokugawa, President of the House of Peers, Baron Hiranuma, President of the Privy Council, and the Minister of the Imperial Household who dropped an august intimation : the Son of Heaven will bestow posthumously on Dr. Dan the First Order of the Sacred Treasure. After a Buddhist funeral the august remains will be buried at Aoyama Cemetery, Tokyo...