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...first "holy smuggling" trial fortnight ago was that of Sister Wernera (born Katherine Weidenhöfer) of the Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul in Cologne. Years ago the Sisters of Charity borrowed $100,000 from Mercantile-Commerce Bank & Trust Co. of St. Louis to complete a nursing hospital in Cologne. On the dot the sisters met installments of their debt, until just $25,000 remained owing by 1935. A Dr. Hofius, good Catholic layman, of the Münster Bank in Westphalia, suggested how this last amount might be paid off. By elaborate code (whenever Mercantile-Commerce...
...that evening, Jane Dale leaves the table. Nor is her appetite stimulated by a legal complication possible in Louisiana whose laws are based on the Code Napoleon. She admits owing Shevlin $60 for parts of his car which she bribed a mechanic to trans fer to hers. Palpably she, a debtor, was attempting to leave the state. According to the law, that situation gives the creditor "custody of the body...
...first ten months of 1934. announced FER Administrator Harry Hopkins last week. States and communities spent $323,890,560 for relief-28.3%, more than in the same period in 1933. Simultaneously Administrator Hopkins moved to shift a still bigger share of the relief burden to their shoulders. Beginning Feb. 1, all "unemployables" will be transferred from Federal to State and community relief rolls...
Though only one of the French Railways Chemin de Fer de l'Etat is officially state-owned, all French railways are heavily subsidized, cost the Government between $198,000,000 and $264,000,000 a year. Spurred by Premier Doumergue, Minister of Public works Pierre Etienne Flandin presented a plan last week to cut (wo billion francs a year from this charge by replacing 6,000 mi. of secondary lines by passenger and freight buses and trimming 60,000 employes from the rolls. He further proposed to cut the pay and pensions of all other employes. With luck. this...
Lithographs by Charlet and his pupil Raffet, echoed by wood-engravings of these masters, show the Napoleonic Legend. The comparison is instructive; the visitor directing his glance from a page of Nodier's "Portes de Fer" to a lithograph of the Napoleonic army is readily convinced of the small interest the Romantic artist took in the means of art. Much more important was the final effect...