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Fire destroyed the Central Post Office in Rome, causing damage to the extent of more than 5,000,000 lire. Communications with northern Italy, France and England were interrupted for many hours. Five hundred telegraph instruments were destroyed, but there were no casualties...
...vise her passports. Mme. Kalinin insists that no political capital will be made out of her visit. She is coming in response to the invitation of the American Committee for Relief of Russian Children to make a two months' tour of the United States, as representative of the Central Committee of the Rus-sian Red Cross Society. Her purpose is to appeal for aid for the famine stricken orphans of Russia. "Firstly and chiefly," said she, "I want to thank the people of America. . . . We have millions of orphans who need clothes, medicines, education, books - everything - as well...
...colossal fortune and started his son Rufus where he left off. Thereupon, having got religion and put his rather flushed past as far as possible behind him, he was devoting his senility to the satisfying contemplation of the works he had wrought and to feeding the squirrels in Central Park...
...Grand Central Station Art Gallery, well lighted, planned, and furnished, and with the largest sales gallery floor-space in the world (15,000 square feet), opened March 21. As most of the Press remarked, a new situation thence arises in the life of the commuter, whereby the race for the smoking car may be to the swift, but the Sargent to the slow...
Pope Leo XIII, link between the 19th and 20th centuries, laid down the dogmatic system of Aquinas as the " norm" of Roman Catholic teaching. Pius X, in 1907, blasted all " modernism" by an encyclical (Pascendi Dominici) which emphasized the central Catholic idea of Authority. Abbe Loisy in France, Father Tyrrell in England, and Father Zahm in America were promptly excommunicated. Whether or not the Vatican has merely scotched the snake, modernism (in the " dangerous " sense) is not now visible within its broad domains. Hilaire Belloc, brilliant Catholic now visiting America, tells the world it needs Authority, which means dogma personified...