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Bernard Marmaduke FitzAlan-Howard, Premier Duke & Earl of England,* 16th Duke of Norfolk, 27th Earl of Arundel. presided last week at the exciting ceremony of removing from Arundel Castle's hoary vault the skeleton of his potent ancestor, the 13th Earl of Arundel, dead 336 years...
...heart of the young Duke & Earl (he is only 22) undoubtedly beat fast. If the skeleton of the Earl were found to be missing or could not be identified. Pope Pius XI would refuse beatification. But if the skeleton proved to be all right, and if suitable documents were found in the coffin, all would be well. No Howard yearns for further earthly honors; but the young Duke & Earl, educated by priests and brought up by a supremely devout mother, yearns devoutly for the holy joy of having an ancestor beatified...
...gloomy vault was pried the ancient coffin. A copper plate, incorruptible, identified the moldering sarcophagus. The skeleton was complete. Yellowed parchments supplied the final proof. They were forwarded, by the Right Reverend Peter E. Amigo, Bishop of Southwark, who was present at the disinterment, to Vatican City...
Shaped for thought, tall, easy in motion, showing the skeleton in Sensitive hands...
...Mississippi skeleton has accumulated $32,000,000 interest charges upon its $7,000,000 frame. British Corporation of Foreign Bondholders does much to discourage the purchase of bonds from Mississippi and other United States with obligations in default.* And certain States keep such bonds from their legal list. Prime example is Connecticut, whose rigid rules also bar the bonds of Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma from the legal list because these States were admitted to the Union after 1896, have not had a sufficiently long history to be given full credit standing...