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...Cristobal, C. Z., transferred to the Belgian schoolship Mercator, taken on to Antwerp. In Belgium the Fathers of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus & Mary, Father Damien's order, have already set in motion the long, deliberate machinery by which the Roman Catholic Church canonizes saints. So insistent were pious Belgians, so sure that the presence of Father Damien's dust in a proper shrine might work wonders, that King Leopold III personally wrote President Roosevelt last autumn, secured the U. S. Government's help in taking Father Damien back to his native land...
...meeting. Shirley, who was "saved" at 14 by the Full Salvation Union, remarked: "It's going to be a great meeting although the Devil has sent ice and snow to try to thwart the Christians." So when Evangelist Wright brought his exhortations to a shouting climax, pale, pious Shirley Tapp was among the first to hasten up to the altar, burst into prayer. "Oh, Lord," cried she, "I will always praise You and never be afraid to bear Your name!" Then & there she collapsed...
...Princeton's President Harold Willis Dodds told the Liberals to choose between Gomez and his opponent, Carlos Manuel de la Cruz. They chose Gomez. Menocal tore his beard indignantly. Dr. Dodds thereupon drew up the final electoral code (TIME, Dec. 16). New factor was that Cuba's pious, conservative women had the vote for the first time. Meanwhile, unwilling to accept the responsibility of either holding or postponing the election, provisional President Carlos Mendieta resigned his job to his meek Secretary of State Jose A. Barnet y Vina-gres (TIME, Dec. 23). Of all the dozen "sectors...
...other members of the Cabinet were rebuked in the strongest terms by the King for having made a dangerous mess was an impression publicly strengthened when Squire Baldwin emerged with black and discouraged looks. He was later observed to behave snappishly to his devoted wife Lucy, famed for her pious confidence that whatever Stanley does is but the indirect working of Divine Providence...
...renowned Chinese Marshal with a name the world knows had enjoyed the same success it would have been psychologically much greater. At week's end cables from Tientsin announced that the great "Scholar War Lord," Marshal Wu Pei-fu, had agreed to end eight years of erudite and pious seclusion in a Buddhist monastery to rule North China...