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...beginning at the top with Chief of Police Michael Hughes. In the old days it was a mark of distinction to be seen at gangster funerals, but during the Loesch prosecutions, probably not even U. S. Senator Deneen of Illinois would care to be seen near the bier of a "racketeer."* Behind the Murphy bier, instead of the United Press's "mile long cortege," were just 20 automobiles, no crowd, no color...
...rainsoaked grave of Flier Floyd Bennett in Arlington National Cemetery was laid a wreath of ferns and calla lilies sent by President Coolidge. Two days later President Coolidge went to the chamber of the House of Representatives and gazed, during a state funeral service, at the catafalque and bier of his dead friend and Flood Control spokesman, Representative Martin Barnaby Madden of Illinois...
...sends it racing round in hot haste to destroy the enemy. At one time the best medical practice believed in damping the fire, bringing down the fever. Now the viewpoint changes. Medical men are conjuring up fevers to help them fight widely different diseases. Last week Herr Doktor August Bier, head of Berlin's largest hospital, told the Berlin Medical Society about his use of fire as a curative agent. He burns the body to bring on a fever in cases of chronic diseases of the joints, obstinate suppuration, cardiac inflammation following chronic ulceration. Using the thermo-cauterizer...
Some few moments later a limousine with bullet-proof glass windows stops at the door. Up the stair stalks Il Duce. He enters the presence of the dead, alone. Like a soldier, like a ramrod, he stands at attention beside the bier. Minutes pass. No tears, no prayers, no rattling of beads. At last Signor Mussolini salutes the dead and strides away...
Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, Viscount Byng of Vimy, Admirals Beatty and Jellicoe, and, symbolically to the fore of the bier, clad in a greenish-brown Belgian uniform, Baron de Ceynick, Field Marshal of the Belgian Army, special representative of King Albert of the Belgians in whose realm was launched the first British attack...