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...Paul's Cathedral. Elsewhere, conditions in the Church of England continued worse. Many a rural clergyman was a lazy oaf, neglectful of baptisms and communions. The font in many a church was cluttered with debris, the altar a rickety table on which the minister tossed his greatcoat and riding crop...
Replied M. Germain-Martin as he struggled into his double-breasted greatcoat, clapped on his derby hat and made for the door, "Enter it on the books as 'deferred, pending the formation of a new govern-ment...
...symbolical, black, red, and grey -black and red being the Soviet mourning colors with grey as the workers' color." On the lowest step of the tomb stood the leaders of Communism last week to watch the parade. Dictator Josef Stalin in a soldier's kepi and greatcoat; Commissar of War Clemence Voroshilov; Commissar of Education Andrei Bubnov, et al. Correspondents watching the parade noted two facts: 1) that the uniformed Russian army was noticeably better drilled, better equipped than it was a year ago; 2) that cartoons and effigies of the enemies of Communism carried...
...famed "Iron Man," Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, president of the Reichsbank−had hung doggedly to $332,000,000 as the greatest sum the Reich could possibly pay. Last week, however, he appeared so struck by the figure $420,000,000 that, clapping on a Hamburg hat and greatcoat, he caught the Nord Express for Germany...
Among the visitors at the field on the third day was a distinguished old gentleman so bundled up in his greatcoat that few bystanders recognized him at first. He got out of his automobile and hurried over to watch the Lobbyist take off with a fresh load. Smiling like a boy, stepping quickly with excitement, the old gentleman looked as though he wanted to fly too. But he was not asked and it was not until he took off his hat to shake off mud and gravel whirled up by the Lobbyist's propellers, that newsgatherers spotted...