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...Colorado Party fat. The Colorados pushed through graft-rich social reforms: old age pensions, universal suffrage, government monopolies of industry. Well satisfied were Uruguay's rural million and a half who raise sheep and cattle on its rolling pastures, doze under the trees in front of white plaster estancias...
...secretly because, certain to be one of the busiest Vatican functionaries during the Holy Year, he would have no time for a cardinal's duties. Monsignor Caccia Dominioni consulted a picture postcard, directed workmen to a spot on the wall. With chisels and mallets they chipped away plaster. Presently a hollow was discovered, containing a bronze casket and a cylinder. These Monsignor Caccia Dominioni removed. The prelates departed, officially sure that the Holy Door of St. Peter's, walled up at the end of the 1925 Holy Year and containing mementoes of it, had not been disturbed...
...invested more taxpayers' money in symbols, emblems and decorations of the Christian faith" than in those of any other religion. But hot criticism continued and last week the Detroit News swept up the whole job as "a slander to Detroit workingmen," advised returning the walls to plain white plaster...
...news of the inauguration. Senate meetings, etc., etc., which are always so vividly portrayed in the TIME broadcast when suddenly my clock fell to the floor at my feet and the floor rose and fell like an ocean wave, the book case full of books toppled over, plaster fell from the walls and ceiling, dishes crashed out of the cupboard; pots, pans, and food fell off the kitchen shelves...
Among the most effective works exhibited was a still life Fétiche et Fleurs by Palmer C. Hayden, which won Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s $100 for excellence in painting. An appealing Head of a Girl in plaster by William E. Artis won another $100, the John Hope prize in sculpture...