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...lifelong friend the Archbishop of Canterbury and highest Anglican prelates in St. George's Chapel, Windsor. Fittingly, since England was burying her "Sailor King," his son Edward VIII wore the uniform George V held so much more dear than the ermine, the purple and the cloth of gold: the blue of Admiral in the Royal Navy...
...scar in the forest which looked as if a giant scythe had slashed diagonally down through the trees. At one end were a few lopped branches, at the other the crunched remnant of The Southerner's cabin. In between was a confetti of duralumin, mail, cloth, hunks of flesh. Part of a wing was wrapped around a tree 40 ft. off the ground. Blood stains began high on tree trunks, gradually descended until they smeared the stumps. Everywhere was the reek of gasoline...
...vexatious problem to U. S. Protestant churches and to the U. S. Department of Justice has been prison chaplaincies. Chief reason: the Protestant cloth seems to lose caste when associated with the cell. Last year Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings abandoned a hit-or-miss method by which U. S. penal institutions drew their chaplains from the neighborhood clergy. Into effect last week went a new system evolved with the help of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America...
...house in Bakunin Street, swept all housewives therein off to jail, left astonished husbands and children to return to find no dinner. With an air of uncovering the deepest-dyed skullduggery, the OGPU revealed that the eight women had possessed among them 50 woolen shawls, 1,800 yards of cloth and "quantities" of quilts, tablecloths, boots, shoes and rubbers which they planned to resell at a profit...
...decisively overcome" Russia's shortage of consumer goods, abolished restriction cards (TIME, Oct. 7), threw open Moscow stores said to be bulging with more than the public could buy and dispatched throughout the world Soviet newsreels of beaming buyers rushing in to obtain meat, butter, caviar, cloth, quilts, rubbers, etc. One scoundrelly speculator was caught last week selling for 40 rubles a pair of gloves she had stood in line to buy from the State for 15 rubles, the purchaser preferring not to spend the day in a queue...