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...coat for which the Roman soldiers gambled while Christ was dying on the cross. It is supposed to have been found near Jerusalem about 330 by St. Helena, mother of Emperor Constantine. At Trier it is displayed on a white satin, gold-embroidered cloth. To it are ascribed many cures, especially of lameness...
...takes care of all the 300-odd live snakes, lizards, fish, birds, bats which Minneapolis keeps in a wing of its public library, but rattlesnakes are her specialty. Some seven months ago she set out to placate Sahuara, one of her male rattlers. First she soothed him with a cloth on the end of a stick. Soon she was able to stroke him with her bare hand. Then she put him in a cage with Kitty, a female rattler. Last fortnight appeared the results of Curator Wiley's kind treatment-ten baby rattlesnakes, of which four survived...
...National Church, a Nazi Church? For half a day Chancellor Hitler let the sensation sizzle. Suddenly he decided that Catholics must not be pressed too hard- just yet. In an official Government communique acting Reichsbischof Müller's words were branded as "inventions from the whole cloth and lies. The Chancellor belongs to the Catholic Church and has no intention of leaving it." Spiritually German Catholics breathed easier. Politically they were almost forced last week to give up the ghost. Utmost pressure was put on the Catholic Center Party to dissolve. Into their midst "The Doctor" stuck...
...midst of the woolen industry, she joined her passion for story-telling to a lively interest in her surroundings. "As a child I used often to go to my father's mill, lean over the edge of the boiler pit and watch the various processes of cloth manufacture. My father was a man very highly skilled in all textile processes, and famous for this far beyond the walls of his own mill. . . ." Authoress Bentley went to Cheltenham and London for her education, then came back to Yorkshire to write about the things and people she knew
Battling desperately to sell Indians cotton cloth, Japanese and Britons gash each other with the sharp trade swords of a steadily falling Japanese yen, a steadily rising Empire tariff. Last week Japan's yen had slumped 50% below par, but Britons had more than retaliated by raising the duty on Japanese and other non-British cotton cloth entering India six times since 1930, the last time by an added...