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France took no official notice, but in Paris a file of wounded veterans clumped up the Champs Elysees to dip their flags over the tomb of the Unknown Soldier in honor of their comrades who died during the Ruhr occupation. A third demonstration took place two days earlier when a crowd of nearly 1,000 Jews & Communists rioted at a Brooklyn quayside, waiting to boo Hans Weidemann and Gotthold Schneider, Hitler's not particularly welcome envoys to the Chicago World's Fair. Dozens of heads were cracked, 13 rioters arrested...
Whisking it open to p. 19 he poked his pudgy finger to a spot that reads: "In a crypt beneath St. Peter's is the reported tomb of the very founder of the Church." No writer of gospels himself, Peter thumbed his way to St. Matthew 16:18, where he read: "Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against...
Peter's Bones, Another matter which the Pope has been considering is a shrine nearer home. In a crypt beneath St. Peter's is the reputed tomb of the very founder of the Church. After Christ's resurrection Peter was delivered from jail in Jerusalem by an angel, went to Antioch and then, according to some Protestant and all Catholic opinion, to Rome, where during Nero's persecutions he was crucified head downwards near the spot where his basilica now stands. St. Peter's head is in St. John Lateran. His body is supposed...
...crypt under the Garrison Church, now the Reichstag Building, Old Paul proposed to lay a wreath on the tomb of FREDERICK THE GREAT...
...strike a great number of obscure noble Italian families, churches and monasteries. Dealers were able to offer rich clients the most extraordinary treasures, objects that had evaded the researches of biographers and art students for centuries. With great clamor the Boston Museum paid $100,000 for a Renaissance tomb identified by Italian experts as the work of Mino da Fiesole. The Metropolitan Museum bought an archaic Greek statue. Miss Helen Frick got an angel by "Simone Martini"-the list is endless...