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Tense on the centre aisle of Manhattan's small Holy Cross Armenian Apostolic Church last Christmas Eve sat a little band of men who were not there to worship God and His Son to be born on the morrow. Brilliant in churchly regalia, a solemn procession moved up the aisle toward the candle-decked altar. When Archbishop Leon Tourian, tall, grey-bearded primate of his Church in America, drew abreast of them, the men did what they had come for. A double-edged butcher knife flashed once, vanished in the Archbishop's abdomen. (TIME...
...eleven o'clock some 2,000 students appeared in front of the Widener Library. The Chowder Club came out in regalia, one clad in towels holding a "Down with Peace" sign, another in black robes with a bomb, another in boy scout togs tooting a bugle and leading cheers for "We Want War," and the prize of the lot clad as a Nazi Storm Trooper...
...desires, for the sake of mere consistency, that these inept matrons should espouse the cause of World Revolution. They have their own contribution to offer America as a picturesque and well-behaved branch organization with all the badges and regalia of the Elks; Odd-Fellows, and the Legion, but also good-behavior and disinterestedness. Their program is bright and entertaining, as desired. But before the Daughters can hope to enlist youth, especially students in a program of "talking America up," faith in government, and country; they will have to yank themselves out of the political picture and indulge in some...
...result was frantic scrambling in the bazaars of Peiping (once Peking) by one-time Chinese courtiers, court eunuchs and palace servants who paid fantastic prices last week for Manchu robes and bits of court regalia which they had sold for next to nothing after "Christian" War Lord Feng Yu-hsiang drove the boy Emperor out of Peiping's Imperial Palace. With hopes high over 100 kinsmen of the Manchu House left Peiping for Manchukuo, led by Puppet Henry's Cousin Prince Kung...
...arrived and were waiting for him with some impatience. Frankfurter started for the elevator. "You can't go up like that," the others objected. The lumberjacks, they warned him, were in a hostile mood, suspicious of the government's efforts at mediation. Frankfurter's appearance in any such capitalist regalia as a dinner jacket would ruin all prospect of settlement. "Nonsense," Frankfurter replied and went to meet the strikers. While his associates looked on apprehensively, he held the conference, gradually succeeded in breaking down the antagonism of the strikers. When the meeting broke up substantial progress had been made...