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...pause] John Paul." This gesture of respect to John Paul I, the gentle Venetian who had died after a 33-day reign, reinforced the cheers that were beginning to roll across the stunned square. Now it seemed to hit everyone at once. "E il Polacco!"?It's the Pole???said one onlooker. "Un Papa straniero!"?a foreign Pope?shouted others. The realization was beginning to sink in that the supposedly hidebound College of Cardinals had done not merely the unexpected but the nearly unthinkable...
...bill directly interposed the public credit of the U. S. Government for the private credit of U. S. finance and industry; 2) the Federal Reserve Board?Governor Meyer, Adolph > Miller, Charles S. Hamlin, George R. James, and Wayland W. Magee, together with Secretary Mills and Comptroller of the Currency Pole??? was made a virtual dictator of U. S. currency and hence U. S. economics for one full year...
...George Hubert Wilkins and his 18 men in the 24-year-old submarine Nautilus?surface cruising the North Atlantic to England last week, en route to the North Pole???went radiograms as foreboding as the witch cries that menaced Macbeth...
BIRD LIFE AT THE POLE???Wolcott Gibbs ?Morrow...
...Ellsworth [U. S. backer of the expedition] and I had each, of course, brought a flag to be dropped overboard as we crossed the pole??? Ellsworth the Stars and Stripes and I the national flag of Norway. In keeping with Nobile's injunctions to keep down the weight of all baggage, we had each brought a little flag not much larger than a pocket handkerchief. . . . Imagine our astonishment to see Nobile dropping overside not one, but armfuls of flags. For a few moments the Norge looked like a circus wagon of the skies. ... I was amused at his childish pleasure...