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*Peter, who struck down the famed pair of liars, Ananias and Sapphira (Acts 5: 1-10) after they "sold a possession, and kept back part of the price."
† In the early Christian community everything was held in common; but Ananias and Sapphira, who had sold a piece of land, held back some of the money. When Peter took them to task they "fell down and gave up the ghost."
Franklin Roosevelt established the Presidential press conference as an institution. No other U.S. President had ever been so regularly accessible to newsmen. McKinley on occasion had stepped to the White House door, chatted briefly and uninformatively with reporters. Theodore Roosevelt had used favorite correspondents for "trial balloon" stories and consigned...
Mischief-makers and fanatics cried that it was not so in the past, before the French came to rule, when Islam's mothers and daughters lived dutifully within their walled courtyards. Everywhere in the ancient capital jealous men gathered and listened. Then angry groups marched down the Street Called...
In the W.G.N. handbook referred to in TIME of Dec. 1, telling how Homer, Dickens, Kipling, Mark Twain, et al. would have liked to work on the Chicago Tribune, I might also mention a couple of chaps who doubtless would have felt right at home on the Tribune staff: Ananias...