Word: ancients
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Just as nature abhors a vacuum so the law abhors a vacant ownership of anything. In the U. S. the States are the original and ultimate proprietors of all lands within their jurisdictions. And the ancient feudal doctrine of Escheat or accidental reverting of lands to the original lord has been applied in modern law not only to lands but to personal property, unclaimed savings deposits, dividends, and securities. Most laymen and many lawyers think of escheat only when persons die without wills and heirs. Last week smart lawyers all over the U. S. eyed with admiration a lawsuit filed...
...merely to foil their loneliness and feed their egos, men since the dawn of history have banded together in secret societies. Modern Free-Masons believe their order "coeval with the creation of the world by the Almighty." Plato recorded the scandalous revels of secret orders in ancient Greece. Africa has its Egbo, eastern Australia its hoary lodges where the initiation begins by knocking out the candidate's front teeth. Nowhere have secret societies flourished more luxuriantly than in the U. S. During the Revolution everyone of importance from George Washington to Lafayette belonged to them. Some subsequent samples: Daughters...
...types-social fraternal orders and insurance fraternal orders. In the former classification, meeting largely as clubs with an interest in good works, are the Elks, Masons, Odd Fellows, Eagles, Shriners, Moose, Knights of Pythias. In the latter group, whose main purpose is social security through insurance, are the Ancient Order of United Workmen, Royal Arcanum, Maccabees, Independent Order of Foresters, and, largest of all, the Modern Woodmen of America who last week gathered in convention in Chicago...
...Emperor were immensely relieved, felt that the tide of militarism had at last turned. As always before choosing a new Premier, the Emperor immediately got in touch with 88-year-old Prince Kimmochi Saionji, last of the Genro (elder statesmen) who advised the late great Emperor Meiji. The ancient Prince had the very man groomed for such an emergency - dapper 45-year-old Prince Fumimaro Konoye, president of the House of Peers, an independent, nonparty aristocrat who was nominated for Premier three years ago while he was in New York taking the temperature of the U. S. about naval disarmament...
Albert and Anna Howard Fellowship of $1,000, for advanced study of the ancient Greeks and Romans, divided between John R. Grant 1G, of St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada, and William L. Grant, of Victoria...