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...railroads began to lose their 50-year-old transportation monopoly. To oil and gasoline pipe lines, trucks and government-subsidized barge lines, went their freight. To buses, airplanes and private cars went their passengers. Traditionally as reactionary as bankers, railmen were slow to reach for their thinking caps to cope with this new situation. An additional obstacle to concerted, thoughtful action was the industry's diversity of interests, there being almost as many railroads in the country as newspapers. In the fourth year of Depression, last week Pennsylvania R. R. introduced an elastic freight service, and Southeastern and Western...
...flaming with myriad chandeliers, are to crowd Roman and foreign notables, thousands of plain folk and pilgrims from all lands. On its lofty walls they behold enormous oil paintings of Bernadette Soubirous and her good works in life. Pope Pius XI enters, in triple crown and embroidered white cope, borne aloft on his sedia gestatoria. He proceeds to the altar, followed by cardinals, archbishops, patriarchs, bishops, monsignori and priests, who kiss his ring and the cross on his slipper. The air is heavy with incense...
Promised the Havana post at the first shuffle of the New Deal.'Diplomat Caffery is quite as experienced a Career Man as his predecessor. Service has taken him from Caracas to Stockholm, from Teheran to Tokyo, from Berlin to Bogota. He can cope effectively with the Latin American mind...
...ordinary bishop's cope (bell-shaped cape of stiffened fabric) costs about $100; a fancy, jeweled one at least $5,000. Presiding Bishop James De Wolf Perry had his cope packed and shipped to Philadelphia in a case big enough for a piano; also his mitre of gold lace and jewels. Bishop Perry followed along, unmindful of alarums raised by his church's Protestant "gadfly," Dr. Alexander Griswold Cummins of Poughkeepsie, N. Y. (TIME, Oct. 30). Bishop Perry insisted that he represented the whole Episcopal Church and would continue...
...Hasenclever; Lee Shubert, producer). Behind Her Man of Wax is an idea as excellent as any that ever suffered mutilation at the hands of an adapter. Napoleon reappears in 1933. is hailed as a savior by a chaotic world until it is discovered that a 19th Century man cannot cope with 20th Century problems...