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Within the hall it was 4:00 p.m. Brilliant electric lights gave the effect of daylight; the Continental Congress assembled?Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Richard Henry Lee, et al. Last to stride in among the famed patriots was John Hancock. In stentorian tones he called for order. "In accordance with Colonial custom" the proceedings were carried out and the Declaration of Independence was signed again...
...Since the Cabinet of the Reich has resigned (TIME Dec. 14 et ante), Dr. Luther and Herr Stresemann hold these titles and offices only provisionally until such time as a new Cabinet shall be formed...
Feng Adroit. Super-Tuchun Feng, the so-called "Christian protector of Peking," resorted to a typical Chinese strategy last week in his campaign against General Li, the Governor of Chihli Province, whom he has been besieging at Tientsin (TIME, Dec. 28. et ante...
Before actually closing the Holy Door, the Pope immersed his blessed trowel in holy water, dried it on especially blessed linen. He scooped up a little mortar; picked up three small rectangular stones emblematic of the Trinity; set each carefully in place, saying: "In fide et virtute domini nostri Jesu Christi filii Dei vivi." With the second trowelful he said: "Qui apostolorum principi dixit tu es Petrus"; and with the third: "Et super hanc petram aedificabo ecclesiam meam." Into a special crevice he had placed coins and medals commemorative of the Holy Year just then closed for at least another...
...Here he was, a Protestant, about to lend his office to the robing of a Catholic prelate. Yet his countrymen are mostly Catholics, although by no means altogether dutifully so, and it would be politic to ignore last spring's imbroglio with the Vatican (see TIME, Feb. 9 et seq.) which has gradually faded...