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Although no mourner for the U. S. Communist, John Reed. I wish to specifically correct TIME's place of burial for this Soviet sympathizer...
...Frank Ernest Beresford's The Princes' Vigil showing the four sons of the late King George V standing guard around his catafalque in the ancient barn of West minster Hall. The artist was chiefly proud of having sketched it so discreetly on his shirt cuffs that no mourner was offended. The high-collared oldster Frank Owens Salisbury drew the greatest crowds with his official portrait of King George at the Silver Jubilee services in St. Paul's last year. He loyally entitled this commonplace job The Heart of the Empire. Others portrayed King George riding, the Duke...
...paralysis," read the announcement, "brought on by his vices.'' His body was piled on a motor truck, jolted to Dire Dawa, chuffed by train to Addis Ababa. In a graveyard 100 mi. to the north of the city Lij Yasu was buried beside his father. The only mourner was Amba Hanna, the aged priest who had been handcuffed to Lij Yasu for nine years. ¶ From the southern front came a succession of contradictory stories which slowly boiled down to a composite rumor that the Italian advance had been completely halted, that Gorrahei, largest town captured...
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...French franc (see p. 19). The fall in commodities was aggravated by President Roosevelt's gloomy forecast that wheat might drop to 36? per bu., cotton to 5? per lb. unless the Constitution were amended (see p. 11). And general uncertainty was increased by the fact that the mourner's bench far outshouted the cheering section...