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...President Roosevelt last week grew highly sarcastic in press conference. The "ladies' proposal," he snorted, was about as democratic as it would be to limit voters to male holders of B.A. degrees. While he was on the subject he went on also to denounce poll taxes as a relic of the Revolutionary era. (He recently endorsed a movement to repeal the poll tax in Arkansas...
...essential to beatification. Last week Monsignor Natucci, his entourage and a few necessary witnesses beheld a second exhumation of Mother Cabrini. At some secret later time, the Devil's Advocate was to sever from the body a limb (which limb would not be revealed) - a "first-class" relic which he would take to Rome for use in the beatification ceremonies...
...First-class relics are parts of the body; second-class, clothing which the saint wore; third-class, anything the saint used or touched. Where relics are known to exist, any church, religious community or pious person may apply for one, usually obtaining a second-class relic...
...London dentist and amateur archeologist named Alvan T. Marston found in gravel at Swanscombe, Kent some human skull fragments which he thought to be of antiquity comparable with the Piltdown skull (TIME, Oct. 12, 1936). Academic anthropologists at first paid him no heed. But when the Swanscombe relic was examined under scholastic auspices, it was seen to be a remarkable thing indeed. Indubitably ancient, though probably not quite so old as the Piltdown, it had modern anatomical features. Anthropologist Sir Arthur Keith, who is 72, gave it as his opinion that the Swanscombe skull is the most important fossil discovery...
...angry by calling Madame du Barry a streetwalker-they meet again, at the house of Count Mercy (Henry Stephenson). This time they settle down for a heart-to-heart chat, in the course of which, touching on the subject of museums. Axel enlarges on the reverence called forth by relics of the past. When Marie Antoinette says, "Do you think-one hundred years hence-some Swedish gentleman wandering in Paris may smile over a relic of Marie Antoinette's, a miniature perhaps, or a ring?" the count agrees politely...