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Despite the "perfect calm" prevailing in Rumania, Premier Vintila Bratiano found it necessary to hold one more conference with party leaders on the very train which carried his brother's coffin out to the Bratiano estate at Florica for burial. Arrived there, the harassed politicians assumed somber mourning faces, then followed the coffin and the royal family through immense crowds of somberly clad peasants, some of whom sprinkled holy water on the slowly passing bier...
...recognition of his services his body was encased in a red coffin and taken to the Foreign Commissariat, where it lay in state, despite the fact that M. Joffe, close and good friend of Lev (Leon) Davidovitch Trotsky, was a member of the opposition group...
Arriving at the cemetary which surrounds Novo Devichi, the coffin was carried to the edge of the grave by Trotsky, Zinoviev, Radek, Kamenev, Rakovsky and an unspecified member of the Joffe family-all Oppositionists. Foreign Commissar Georg Tchitcherin, representing the Central Committee of the Communist Party, spoke first, paying an eloquent tribute to M. Joffe's services and ability as a diplomat. But the greatest of all the speeches was that of Leon Trotsky, the Communist outcast...
...first all-Negro musical comedy, Shuffle Along. Her last triumph was Florence Mills & Her Blackbirds (London, 1927). Said she before death: "I've not begun to be what I was meant to be." At the largest funeral ever known to Harlem, she lay in a $10,000 copper coffin. Six hundred chorus voices sang Negro spirituals to the accompaniment of 200 musicians...
Although Dr. Palmer, no hider under bushels, might have highlighted his experiences, it is true that pastors dislike refusing the marriage services. In their behalf Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin, urbane and diplomatic president of Union Theological Seminary, last week presented a resolution to the Presbytery of New York...