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Real victor last week was not General Kundt but Pope Pius XI who did something his predecessor Benedict XV was never able to do through the four years of the Great War. The Papal Nuncio in La Paz persuaded both Bolivia and Paraguay to agree to a 24-hour truce commencing at 10 p. m. Christmas...
Escorted by Swiss and Noble Guards in full uniform, Pope Pius XI and his papal court entered Consistory Hall in the Vatican one day last week. There he received the Christmas felicitations of a score of cardinals, delivered in a speech by Gennaro Granito Cardinal Pignatelli di Bel-nionte, 81, dean of the Sacred College. As is his wont, Pius XI made reply...
...York City's Police Commissioner Edward Pierce Mulrooney went to the Vatican, heard himself, his family and force blessed by Pope Pius XI Later he heard Benito Mussolini wonder why Franklin Delano Roosevelt and James John ("Jimmy") Walker had "quarreled," since they are members of the same political party...
While bathing, Pope Pius XI smelled gas, rang for his chamberlain, had the windows opened, himself escorted to another room. An electric water heater was ordered for the papal bathing chamber...
...Anton Joseph Cermak were disqualified as rubber-stamps. Revealed as refusers-to-sign were: George V, Paul von Hindenburg, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin, John Davison Rockfeller Sr., Al Capone. Most reluctant (one each) were: Henry Ford, Greta Garbo, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Tom Mooney, Edward of Wales, Benito Mussolini, Pope Pius XI, "One-Eye" Connelly, John Davison Rockefeller Jr. Most obliging: Calvin Coolidge, Rudy Vall...