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Over the years, Swiss bankers have striven to create an image of them selves as the Alps of finance - solid, silent and snowy white. The effort has been successful. To the anonymous sanc tuary of their numbered accounts, the bankers have attracted nervous money from the world's teetering tyrants and the merely discreet rich. Swiss banks yearly draw more than $500 million in foreign capital, earn almost as much as the tourist industry. Lately, how ever, the reputation of the Swiss bank ers has become somewhat tarnished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Switzerland: Banking Scandal | 6/11/1965 | See Source »

...personal opinion that despite the chaotic, half-crazed existence which Van Gogh led, his paintings are as sanc, as natural as any creation ever to come from the brush of an artist. If, as many say, they are the artistic symptoms of a deranged mind, it can be said with equal conviction that in many cases his deranged mind has succeeded in breaking through certain superimposed limits of expression and has gone beyond the barrier of empirical observation in a surprisingly unaffected and natural way. His mind was no hodge-podge while he was actually painting; on the contrary...

Author: By Jack Wilner, | Title: Collections & Critiques | 3/27/1940 | See Source »

...sixth hour, and there-'came over the whole was a darkness over all country, and lasted un the earth until the ninth til three in the after hour. noon, us the sun was And the sun was in eclipse. And the darkened, and the veil curtain before the sanc of the temple was rent tuary was torn in two. in the midst. Then Jesus gave a loud And when Jesus had cry, and said, cried with a loud voice, "Father, I intrust my he said, Father, into thy Spirit to your hands!" hands I commend my With these words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: New Bibles | 11/30/1931 | See Source »

Pope Pius XI pondered, ordered suspended recently elaborate preparations for the international congress of Catholic sport associations in Rome, because Roman Catholic processions had been jostled by Fascist youths at Mantua and Macerata. Last week Athletic Secretary Thibaudeau of the French Catholic gymnastic societies obtained an interview with the Sanc-tissimus Pater, returned to Paris, talked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Too Grave | 9/20/1926 | See Source »

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