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Amid the dead silence of a massed throng which pack-jammed the enormous square and all side streets. Queen Elena opened her velvet handbag, extracted with visible emotion her gold wedding ring and the King's, dropped them into a large bronze urn. An Archbishop advanced and blessed two iron rings lying on a red velvet cushion while Her Majesty knelt with lips moving in silent prayer...
Darkly, like water dripping through the grounds in a coffee urn, an idea last week percolated through the minds of professional G. O. Politicians: Franklin Roosevelt's press conference declaration for centralized Federal control of business (TIME, June 10) would somehow make them a cracker jack issue for 1936. On one of his cross-country pilgrimages to Republican shrines, Herbert Clark Hoover snatched at it like a starving man snatching at a crust of bread. At Des Moines, in his native Iowa, he asked the graduating class of Drake University: "Will government permit you to breathe the pure...
...trophy, which is to be given annually to the house which gets the highest rating in House athletic competitions during the year, was offered this spring to the Houses by Percy S. Straus '97. It is in the form of a large silver coffee urn, of fine design in Sheffield silver, and worthy of a prominent position in a House common room...
...Urn, Stresa," remarked Benito Mussolini one day last week, pausing an instant as he dictated Fascist orders of the day. "Get Stresa ready for a conference on April 11. Veneer the railway station with marble. Repave the principal streets. Clean up everything-the usual precautions. And don't spend more than 2,000,000 lire...
Following the donation by Percy S. Straus '97 of a silver coffee urn for inter-House athletic competition in all sports, the Interhouse Athletic Committee has worked out a point system for scoring the results of the present year's competition...