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Procedure. Having gotten a thumbs-down on the 18th Amendment from the Democrats and at least a thumbs-sideways from the Republicans, last week Wets made ready the next steps toward wrenching Prohibition from the Federal statute books. Mrs. Sabin's sisterhood was to meet at Roslyn, L. I. July 7 to decide which Presidential candidate it would support. The Crusaders, the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment and the United Repeal Council were to meet later for a like purpose. There are 33 Senatorial elections ahead in November and 435 Representatives to be campaigned for or against before...
When beauteous young Nilla Cram Cook, recent U. S. initiate to Mahatma Gandhi's sisterhood, went to worship in the Hindu Temple at Dwarka, out rushed crowds of native worshippers. Priests wailed that the temple had been "polluted." After a 24-hour interval and a purification ceremony costing $75, devotions were resumed...
...Latest addition to St. Gandhi's sisterhood in his model colony on the banks of the Sbarmati River at Ahmedabad is 21-year-old Nilla Cram Cook. She arrived from Greece where she took part in the Delphic festival and where she spent two years in a Sisters of Charity convent accustoming herself to the contemplative life. Beauteous, of classic mold, she is the first U. S. addition to the Mahatma's platonic harem. She speaks Indo-Aryan and other Oriental languages, recently made a novel of her own eventful life. Her father was the late George Cram ("Jig") Cook...
...Emilie Thorn Post, relict of Tycoon Edward C. Post. Last May she gave her highwalled villa at Newport, R. I. to the Carmelite Sisterhood for a nunnery, became a novice therein (TIME, May 26). Because nuns must be poor, she last week yielded to the Museum her husband's collection of rare paintings, drawings, miniatures, objects in gold, silver, marble, bronze...
Some 40 years ago there lived with the Carmelite Sisters at Lisieux, France, a young girl, so young that only months of pleading gained her admittance to the sisterhood. In 1897 she died of tuberculosis at the age of 24, unknown. But she had written a simple autobiography of her spiritual life, and, presently, the name of Sister Therese was known to the hearts of men everywhere. In spiritual unison millions called her "The Little Flower of Jesus" for the incomparable beauty of her faith. In 1923 she was beatified; in 1925, canonized...