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...corroborating view, see p. 53. *Janizariat version of this stops before the word "but." *Mr. Vincent may run for a third term, but it will be over the dead body of Colonel Demosthenes Petrus Calixte, former commandant of the Garde d'Haiti, now exiled to New York City's Harlem, where he is awaiting a turnover in Haiti...
...guilds. They had rules of long apprenticeship, traditions of craft, stiff standards for 'masters." Flemings were lucky, because this medieval system lasted at least a century longer among them than anywhere else, led to the great technical discovery of oil painting and its first masters-Jan van Eyck, Petrus Christus, Hans Memling, Roger van der Weyden...
...Netherlands. And Queen Wilhelmina never speculates but holds. Last week, therefore, Wilhelmina viewed with no airy royal detachment the appalling fact that one-fifth of The Netherlands Bank gold reserve had been withdrawn in the frantic scramble for gold produced by fear that Catholic Party Leader Professor Petrus Josephus Mattheus Aalberse might succeed in forming a Cabinet and might then take the guilder off the gold standard...
...Colijn had his Cabinet's resignation in his pocket. The Catholic members of his coalition had grown restive on the gold issue, and it might be best to give Catholic Party Leader Petrus J. M. Aalberse an opportunity to form what would be The Netherlands' first Catholic Cabinet. Deeply troubled, the Queen, who is the Apotheosis of Protestantism, sent for Professor Aalberse...
...small (109 acres) and crowded to permit the landing of other aircraft. Last week a truck brought into his little realm its first airplane. The Holy Father promptly walked out to peer at it through his thick spectacles, observe on its side the name of his predecessor: SANCTUS PETRUS. The plane, as Pius XI was gratefully aware, was the gift of a recently-formed German organization, the Missions Verkehrs Arbeit Gemeinschaft ("Mission Traffic Aid Society"). Founded by a onetime army aviator named Rev. Paul Schulte who now belongs to the Oblate Order of Mary Immaculate, the Society has provided seven...