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This Sunday Pius XI will re-open the Holy Door, while Cardinals do likewise at the basilicas of St. John Lateran, St. Mary Major, St. Paul-without-the-Walls. In solemn, robed procession the Pope will move from the Vatican to the front portico of St. Peter's. Thrice he will knock, with a golden hammer, on the Holy Door. Within, Sanpietrini (St. Peter's workmen) will lower the door away. The Pope will pray while prelates sprinkle the aperture with holy water. Then all will enter, kissing the jambs as they pass. Thereafter the public may enter...
Uphill. Before the White House portico Mr. Roosevelt kept his seat in the car, waited a few minutes for President Hoover to join him for the ride up Capitol Hill. A lift of silk hats, a quick handshake, a few formal words and their greeting was over. With the country's most precious cargo behind, Richard Jervis, silvery-haired chief of the White House Secret Service, slipped into the front seat of the car, kept its door cracked and one hand on his pocketed pistol...
...Bacon statuary group for the Memorial Church, which was moved from the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York by motor truck, arrived in the Harvard Yard yesterday morning and is now resting on the front portico of the Chapel. The statue, representing a mother and her soldier son, will be moved into the Memorial Room of the Church as soon as staging being used by decorators inside can be taken down, probably the latter part of this week...
...joke." ¶Roscoe Conkling Simmons. Chicago Negro who seconded the Hoover renomination in June, led to the White House 150 representatives of the "Republican Joint National Planning Committee to Get out the Negro Vote," spread them out on the south lawn. President Hoover appeared on the White House portico. "Oh, Mr. President." declared Roscoe Conkling Simmons, "distress has overtaken us. We come to you in our heaviest hour. Some few have gone so far as to say you do not believe in human equality. We have been told our party has deserted the old faith. Speak. Mr. President, speak...
...only part of the building which will require some time for completion is the memorial room, directly behind the southern portico, facing Widener Library. Here is to be placed the tablet bearing the inscription, "From these we have learned in peace," and the panels inscribed with the names of Harvard men who died in the War. Dedication of the chapel, as well as the decision as to whether the names of Harvard men who died fighting for the Central Powers will be included in the list, waits upon the completion of the memorial room...