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...great extent the deep diplomatic wisdom of the Holy See and its nuncios is at the disposal of fanatically pious, fanatically ambitious, hawk-eyed onetime Austrian Empress Zita. Last week this talented schemer, a veritable Metternich in silk skirts, provoked a nationwide Austrian sensation by having her handsome, silky-mustached young Son Archduke Otto announce that he expects to return to Vienna not as Emperor but as "Regent in the name of my mother." This move of Zita's had the aroma of Papal diplomacy, fine and fragrant as musk. In Vienna the Catholic cohorts of Chancellor Dr. Kurt...
...Crawford T. Perkinson of Mount Hope Cemetery Association keynote before the seventh annual convention of the New York State Association of Cemeteries, whose 900 member institutions bury 150,000 people a year at an estimated cost of $15,000,000. Superintendent John C. Plumb of Woodlawn Cemetery drove this pious point home, declaring that: "From time immemorial, people have endeavored to perpetuate the memory of their loved ones. In a greater sense this has been a service to the living. By keeping these last resting places as hallowed spots, free from all temptations of a commercial age, we are rendering...
Also getting out, shepherded by sweet-faced Italian nuns with faint mustaches, were numerous bright-eyed little girls of assorted colors, daughters of Italians who have gone native in Ethiopia but made pious provision for their bastards by founding a convent school. Said an Italian consular official as he put the little girls on the train: "They are the future mothers of a new, nobler generation that is going to inhabit the country that was called Ethiopia...
Sure are pious Austrians that an exceptionally righteous Chancellor will be found in Heaven at no great distance from Jehovah's Throne, and they know of no dead Chancellor more righteous than the late Engelbert Dollfuss who was just the right size to sit beside a cherubim. Last week the Austrian Government of deeply pious Chancellor Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg cast up their eyes to Heaven and declared they were taking a momentous step which they felt would please departed Dollfuss. This step was to ask Austria's hand-picked and subservient State Council to restore over 50,000,000 schillings...
...thought differently was Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett. The portly, pious Herbert Hoover of Canada uprose in the House of Commons to sputter: "There is no intention that this country should offer its surplus of grain at fire-sale prices or throw its surplus on the markets of the world so long as this Government exists." But recognizing that his belated New Dealish Government may go out of existence at the general election next autumn, Prime Minister Bennett added: ''It may well be that other policies may prevail, but they will prevail at the expense of this country...