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...latter grew from it. It is composed of the graduated bards, who alone have power of calling an Eisteddfod and conferring bardic degrees. It is also very ancient, dating from many centuries before the Christian Era. At the time of the Druids, the Gorsedd had considerable political importance, but afterward, when their political power was broken, it be came an institution for preserving the traditions, laws and doctrines of bardism - a function which it still fulfils...
...appeared on the steps of the Murray Hill Hotel in Manhattan. At the bottom of the pile was a little pigskin suitcase marked: "J. W. D., New York," signifying that the candidate had returned from his rest in the woods of Maine to activity in the eastern centre. Shortly afterward, he issued a statement giving practical support to his running mate, Charles W. Bryan, who had attacked Defense Day as advocated by President Coolidge (see Page...
Villa of Comeada: " At the beginning of October, 1919, Homem Christo had rented at Comeda a house. . . . Eight days afterward, one of his friends, Gomez Paredes, came and asked for a night's hospitality. . . . After they had passed the evening together, each retired to his bedroom about 1 a. m. . . . Hardly had he put out his candle, when Mr. Paredes heard knocks on his window panes. He got up and opened his window, but saw nobody. He lay down again. He heard steps quite close to him and doors opening and closing all over the building. He lighted...
...remember a famous occasion when the proof of a so-called divorce scandal, which afterward became the subject of a whole nation's political whispering, was first brought into my office. We had an advisory committee during that campaign and I called them together and presented the alleged copies of certain love letters. I said I believed it was unreal, untrue and unsavory, and that I would...
...course, the abdication of the Convention, and the resignation of its functions to a committee. But as all legislative bodies learn, sooner or later, so this Democratic Convention has learned that business has to be done in committee, if one wants secrecy and dispatch, and then merely be ratified afterward on the floor . . . Once more pure democracy, or the form of pure democracy, which always is the cloak for some sort of oligarchy, had been replaced by representative government where the oligarchy could frankly function in the open with the body of electors reserving the right to veto its decision...