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...Lateran Palace, an austere and gloomy pile, presented to the papacy 16 centuries ago by the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great. Successive pontiffs resided in the Lateran until removal of the papal residence to Avignon (1309 A.D.). It contains the Sanctum Sanctorum, Chapel, "Mother Church of Christen-dom"; reached by a'flight of steps which no Catholic, not even the Pope, may ascend otherwise than on his or her knees...
...must be vigorously combated. . . . Skill and persuasion must be used. I do not approve the overzealous methods of some school teachers who make a practice of tearing off every crucifix which they espy on a child's neck. . . . Such methods are not efficacious. ... I also doubt the wis dom of instructing advanced classes in anti-religion by the method of dissecting before them the remains of so-called saints or other fetishes. The shock with which such demonstrations impinge upon latently religious minds often produces, in my experience, a negative result. We must be more subtle...
...Brazil. Some three centuries later Napoleon drove John VI out of Portugal, and that monarch fled with his Court to Brazil. When things quieted down in Portugal, His Majesty returned to his beloved Lisbon; but he left behind in the "New World" as Regent, his eldest son, famed as "Dom Pedrc of Brazil." When Brazilians and their Regent presently cast off the Portuguese yoke in 1822, President James Monroe of the U.S.A. was first to recognize Dom Pedro as "Constitutional Emperor and Perpetual Defender of Brazil." Not until 1889 was the Imperial House deposed and a republic proclaimed...
...Shrewd Englishmen of "The City"-London's "Wall Street"-weighed carefully what was said by Britain's chemical tycoon, Lord Melchett, upon his return last week from hobnobbing in U. S. tycoon-dom (TIME, Oct. 29). "American prosperity is based upon two factors. One is the large amount of money earned during the War at the expense of Europe, the effect of which was to enable America to remodel her old plants and build new factories. The other is the great productivity of the American workman, based partly on the greater use of mechanical power and partly...
...What had Dom Pérignon done, visitors wondered, to deserve such gratitude? Villagers explained. Dom Pérignon had been the abbey's cellar keeper. It was he who discovered that bottles could be stoppered with cork. And, far more important, he had invented the bubbling wine known as champagne. For a long time, of course, people thought he had been helped by the Evil One. But every Frenchman knows now that champagne may be drunk by the most devout. Ah, yes, Dom Pérignon was a very great man indeed...