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...None but men." Such is the rule concerning the servants of the Pope's household. But in 1886 one Teodolinda Banfi became housekeeper for Pope Leo XIII, remained under Pius X, Benedict XV, Pius XL Retired last week by age (65*), placed in a steam-heated modern apartment across from the Vatican, she wept with loneliness, refused luxury in Milan, saying, "He may need my services again." Opportunism. The past week produced loud Episcopal dissent from the Roman Catholic satisfaction over its annulment of the marriage of the Duke of Marlborough to Consuelo Vanderbilt (TIME, Nov. 22). Up spoke...
...Chatham was launched the submarine Xl, largest and mightiest undersea boat yet built...
During the period of their stay Rome the British King and Queen were received with every mark of sincere respect and friendliness by Pope Pius XL The gorgeous ceremony of the Vatican visit can only be compared to the magnificence associated with the courts of medieval days. The Vatican announces that it attaches great importance to the visit, and, although the Pope refuses to divulge the subject of his half-hour conversation with King George, a high Vatican official said that the visit was regarded as " the beginning of a general reconciliation in the Church of Christ...
...volume, which is Number XL, has been reduced in size in an effort to put it on a paying basis. One whole department has been omitted, the Directory. Owing to the delay at the College Office the scholarship awards have also been omitted. With these exceptions the Register will include every department of the University and present a permanent record of everything of interest...
...Lecture (in German) on "Leading Ideas of the Present Time. XL Individualism and Socialism", by Professor Eucken, in Emerson...