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...save dollars, Britain, the biggest foreign buyer of U.S. flue-cured tobacco (54% of all flue-cured exports last year), abruptly canceled $25 million of scheduled purchases. The price, which had already fallen after earlier cancellations, began to approach the level at which the Government is required to support it. Tobacco markets shut down while Washington made up its mind what to do. Then Washington showed why anyone who gambles in commodities has the odds-and the Government-on his side...
...Nicolas. Nicolas de Flue made no compromises with unrighteousness. He started out as a soldier, but quit when Swiss troops burned a convent in which the enemy had taken refuge. He became a judge, but quit again when he saw an innocent poor man, accused by a rich man, convicted. He became a peasant, working his farm to support his wife and ten children. But again, the call of God was too strong. He left his family and retired to a ravine, where for 20 years, it is said, he ate only the Sacrament and drank nothing...
After his death, the mountaineers of De Flue's native Sachseln began saying prayers to him. According to canon law, this would have permanently disqualified him for sainthood: there is a rule that no public prayers may be said to the departed until Rome has approved the beatification. But in 1669 Pope Clement IX delighted even Switzerland's Protestants by cutting ecclesiastical red tape and authorizing Nicolas de Flue's beatification...
Even the Protestants of Switzerland had something to paste in their books. The day before the canonization, fashionable Rome turned out to hear the municipally supported Academia de Santa Cecilia sing the oratorio, Nicolas de Flue-words by Swiss Protestant Denis de Rougemont, music by Swiss Protestant Arthur Honegger...
...Swiss Protestants think it might not have taken so long if De Flue had not had so many leanings away from Catholicism...