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Franz von Papen, Vice Chancellor of the German Reich, home from Rome where he signed a concordat with the Vatican, made pilgrimage to the ancient Cathedral of Trier to venerate Christ's seamless coat* at the first services held for that purpose since...
...coat for which the Roman soldiers gambled while Christ was dying on the cross. It is supposed to have been found near Jerusalem about 330 by St. Helena, mother of Emperor Constantine. At Trier it is displayed on a white satin, gold-embroidered cloth. To it are ascribed many cures, especially of lameness...
George Henry Pattison Jr. '32 of Winnetka, Illinois, has been elected captain of the 1932 Harvard University basketball team. Pattison is 20 years of age and prepared at New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois. Last year he won minor H's in both basketball and lacrosse...
...Vanzetti's guilt. No lawyer would be willing to accept it without the most rigid cross-examination; no lawyer would be willing to ignore it. It is the kind of stuff that must pass through the fire of a forensic adversary proceeding and be evaluated by the constituted trier of fact...
President Ebert, answering a telegram from Trier demanding relief, alludes to " the new German atrocity of the French military forces against women and children who are driven from their homes by African soldiery...