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...Raditch, however, announced that he would address the peasants. They came on horseback and in carts from the ends of the country to hear him. He stood up before them, a most unprepossessing figure, ill-dressed, half his face concealed by a heavy beard, the other half by thick convex spectacles, for he was nearly blind. He talked to them rapidly, often allegorically and often inchoately. They gave him a reception so passionately loyal, so adoring that it was touching...
Therefore the Royal & Imperial bread was publicly spread extra thick, last week, with the best butter: "... very enjoyable stay . . . the Queen and I have appreciated the loyal and enthusiastic reception . . . the true English welcome which we will never forget . . . accorded us by the people of Nottinghamshire...
...Congressional campaign, with special reference to the seven Senate seats held by Democrats between Maryland and Maine. Resilient, Senator Moses declared that he was satisfied. "Serious differences are sometimes characteristic of strong-minded men," he said. "I should say that just now harmony is at least a foot thick hereabouts." And off he dashed to Dublin, N. H., to enlist the services of Col. George Harvey, publicist-extraordinary to all Republican nominees since 1916 (before which he helped "make" Woodrow Wilson). Puzzlers for the cause of so much confusion over the status of Senator Moses found it, or thought they...
...public, but not private, audiences have been suspended for the present. Before his election to the Papacy he was a doughty mountain climber. Age, not immuration, is responsible for his present frailty. Next May His Holiness will be 72 years old. U. S. Numbers. To the Vatican, whose thick old walls fraction the blaze of Italian summer into cool nooks for the serene observation of world happenings, went the news last week that in ten years the U. S. Catholic population had increased by virtually 20%. In 1916 the numbers had been 15,721,815; in 1926 they had been...
...earnest. Captain Arturo Ferrarin, 32-year-old War veteran, pilot of bombers and pursuit planes, was a member of the victorious 1926 Schneider Cup team. Major Carlo P. Delprete accompanied Commander Francesco de Pinedo on his tour of the Americas in 1927. No tyros, these two airmen chose a thick-winged Savoia-Marchetti monoplane, set out to break the endurance record won for the U. S. by Stinson and Haldeman. They remained in the air 58 hours and 34 minutes, bringing another major record to Italy...