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...cheering crowds to the battlefield. As the President ascended the platform there he was greeted by a white-haired lady of 85. Mrs. M. O. Smith, who as a girl, 71 years before, had stood on a similar platform, had sung a song to a great gathering, had heard Abraham Lincoln begin: "Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers. . . " Last week Mrs. Smith did not sing. President Roosevelt, addressing a crowd of 50,000, declared: "Here, in the presence of the spirits of those who fell on this ground, we give renewed assurance that the passions of war are moldering...
...suggests that Isaac was well aware that he was blessing Jacob instead of Esau; asserts that Jacob demonstrably served 25, not 20 years, with Laban; supplies Rachel's age at her death (41). He puts in Isaac's dying mouth a babbled prophecy that stretches back to Abraham, forward to Christ. Laban, unlucky until Jacob came to live with him, had sought to propitiate the gods by burying alive his infant son in the foundations of his house. When Joseph is born, Jacob prophesies about him as if he were a Messiah, his mother a virgin-goddess...
...regular. As chairman of the Republican National Congressional Campaign Committee in 1918-'20-'22. he did yeoman service by helping rally heavy G. O. P. majorities in the House. For him no Republican can do wrong. Having frequently compared Warren Gamaliel Harding's "moral leadership" to Abraham Lincoln's, his maiden speech in the Senate was a spirited defense of the discredited President's administration. Never a member of the Ohio Gang, he nevertheless branded each investigation of its misdeeds as "an orgy of slander, a spree of muckraking, a riot of vituperation and incrimination...
...saved, brought up his five sons to look down on their orthodox neighbors. Dream of his life was to get himself and family to the U. S. and its Canaanitish but liberal ways. With every step up they moved a little nearer-Vienna, then Paris. There Sons Moishel and Abraham became Marcel and Armand de Belvedere. Son David-Yusel married a rich and masterful girl, departed for points east. Son Julius went to England. Arrived in the U. S. at last, Mayer and faithful Son Pincus sought and found friends in Jewry. Not so Marcel and Armand, who turned Episcopalian...
...pious Episcopalian like his mother. Last March he helped work up an "Everyman's Offering" campaign for his bishop, Rt. Rev. Henry Wise Hobson. By last week the Offering had become nationwide, with Lawyer Taft as its chairman and Eric Gibberd, a onetime department store executive (Abraham & Straus, Inc. in Brooklyn, Mably & Carew in Cincinnati), as its executive secretary. The Offering is working with posters, stickers, pamphlets, nationwide publicity, and a tabloid Hold the Line News. No diocesan or parish quotas are set. First 100% offering reported: from St. Andrew's Mission (48 communicants), Washington Court House. Ohio...