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...Secretary of State and Papal Legate to the 34th International Eucharistic Congress, held aloft the monstrance and pronounced the benediction, all was quiet along the Danube. A moment later boat whistles shrilled, church bells pealed, rockets burst in air and high on St. Gellert Hill a 60-foot cross sprang into light...
...Caudillo himself sprang to the radio and, without naming General Yague, rebuked "those who alarm the capital with bogies of demagogic reforms." He then summoned General Yague to his office, reported Timesinan Callender, dressed him down with the warning that "some persons would be shot for talking as he did." Last week, temporarily absent from active command in the field, General Yague scotched rumors of imprisonment by taking care to be seen at a bridge-opening ceremony near Caspe...
...never gave a public address; he went to only one scientific meeting in his life. His retiring nature was far from a result of shyness, but sprang rather from a sense of the dignity of the scientific life and a natural distrust of confabs, which he regarded as a waste of time. Emerson's observation about a better mousetrap was particularly applicable to Professor Kohler, for although he forced himself on nobody, his reputation for sagacity and good judgment caused chemists the world over to beat a path to the door of his office for advice on technical matters, academic...
Well-assorted list of guest speakers at the Continental Congress last week included two who sprang surprises. On the opening day of the fiesta French Ambassador René de Saint-Quentin embarrassed his more serious listeners by whimsically admitting being mystified by the existence in a democracy of an order founded on such strictly aristocratic principles. The Congress had barely recovered from this shock when it learned that, for the first time since he has been in the White House, Franklin Roosevelt was going to accept an invitation to address it. Said the President extemporaneously...
Meantime, preponderantly to LIFE'S defense sprang an articulate sector of the medical and social service professions. When the police chief of New Haven, Conn, confiscated copies and arrested a dealer, the testimony of two Yale medical professors and a Congregational minister persuaded a judge to dismiss the case. Said the minister, the Rev. Dr. Oscar Maurer: "The failure of parents to acquaint their offspring with the facts of life justifies public agencies doing...