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CHAPTER XIX
HOW THE WORLD RECEIVED THE NEWS
NATIONS PROSTRATE WITH GRIEF—MESSAGES FROM KINGS
AND CARDINALS—DISASTER STIRS WORLD TO NECESSITY
OF STRICTER REGULATIONS
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HOUSE ADJOURNED
Formal tribute to the Titanic's dead was paid by the House of Representatives when it adjourned for twenty-four hours.
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The prayer of the Rev. Henry N. Couden in opening the House session was, in part:
"We thank Thee that though in the ordinary circumstances of life selfishness and greed seem to be in the ascendancy, yet in times of distress and peril, then it is that the nobility of soul, the Godlike in man, asserts itself and makes heroes."
The flags on the White House and other Government buildings throughout the country were at half-staff.
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CHAPTER XIX
HOW THE WORLD RECEIVED THE NEWS
NATIONS PROSTRATE WITH GRIEF—MESSAGES FROM KINGS
AND CARDINALS—DISASTER STIRS WORLD TO NECESSITY
OF STRICTER REGULATIONS
Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters | |