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...Italy and his son Crown Prince Umberto: by Pope Pius XI: with the Supreme Order of Christ, highest decoration the Pope can bestow. The order was established as a pontifical decoration by Pope John XXII in 1319. King Vittorio Emanuele and Crown Prince Umberto were the fifteenth and sixteenth recipients since Pope Pius IX revived it in 1878. Last recipient (1928) was Peru's onetime President Augusto B. Leguia whose son's name last week came in shame before the U. S. Senate...
...said that he was convinced that Governor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr. of California would not grant him the pardon for which Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker of New York went 3,000 mi. to beg last month. "Not a chance," said Prisoner Mooney, on the eve of his sixteenth Christmas behind bars since he and Warren K. Billings were convicted of bombing San Francisco's 1916 Preparedness Day parade. "Powers of business and politics will dictate Governor Rolph's decision. ... It looks as though I would go on for a long time peeling potatoes...
...sixteenth rubber there came what Ely Culbertson described, in his report for various newspapers, as the "most spectacular hand of the match." Culbertson held four spades to the nine, bid 4 spades and made six. Score: Lenz & Jacoby...
...ability to view Renaissance literature not as the unrelated work of several nations, but as a genuine artistic unity, is invaluable to the student. One cannot understand, for instance, the remarkable development in English drama and poetry during the sixteenth century without taking into account the influence of contemporary continental movements. Other phases of Renaissance literature are likewise interdependent. A full course, conducted by a competent authority, is the only way of making that understanding possible. Otherwise students of the period will have to rely on courses which straddle the field without covering...
...Lionel de Jersey Collection consists almost exclusively of rave and important sixteenth and seventeenth century literature. Thorlakason's work has been added to the collection in its relation to Milton, though it has an equally strong connection with the leelandic group...