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...Ludwig Stein, for 20 years foreign editor of the Vossische Zeitung, a professor of the University of Berne in Switzerland, made some interesting comments upon "the master of coke" in an address last week in Manhattan. Said he: "Give me two hours with my old friend, Hugo Stinnes and we will make peace better than you statesmen can make in two years. . . Stinnes is the mightiest personage in the German Empire. The Rockefeller of Germany has accepted no other title than that he gave himself-'the ironmaster.' . . . Stinnes never was an admirer of the Kaiser...
...distinguished persons connected with Harvard-the other two being of Charles W. Eliot, done in 1907, and the late Henry Lee Higginson, 1903. All three are in Cambridge, and, added to the murals and other works of Sargent in the Public Library and elsewhere in Boston, give this master a preeminent representation...
...foot, dressed in white from slippers to zucchetto, preceded by the Swiss Guards, whose gorgeous uniforms owe their origin to Michelangelo. After seating himself upon the throne, His Holiness was greeted by profound obsequies from the assembled Cardinal Bishops, Cardinal Deacons and Cardinal Priests. "Exeunt Omnes," cried the Papal master of ceremonies, and all but the Cardinals departed...
...ceremony of creating the two Cardinals began. The two prospective Cardinals were introduced into the Pope's presence by the Papal Master of Ceremonies, who held cardinal's hats above their heads as they performed the ceremony of "admiration"-kissing the Holy Father's cheek, ring and cross embroidered upon his slipper. Taking the hats from the Master of Ceremonies he placed them upon their heads, saying, "Receive...
...with which Prince Felix Yusupov of Russia (TIME, Dec. 3) would fain buy back or "recapture" two Rembrandt portraits, heirlooms in his family for 200 years, but conditionally acquired by Mr. Widener in August, 1921. The refusal was an impressive demonstration of the undiminished potency of the great Dutch master's name...