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...star's current wife was "so-and-so." At this news, Colorado's Chenoweth again sat up and took notice. "Shows the actual exchange of wives, does it?" he asked intently. "Is that a common type of program?" Pleased by this alertness, Congressman Bryson nodded solemn assent...
...term 'Mr. Big,' as applied to you, to have any connotation of evil or association therewith, or to reflect on your integrity, or to imply that you are allied with racketeers, gangsters and mobsters. We will not republish the articles or advertisements, nor will we give our assent to the republication thereof. We are confident that your and our interest in waterfront problems is mutual...
...Link of Legitimacy. The new U.S. feeling of closeness to Britain and Britain's Crown derived most of all from the half-conscious recognition that Britain and the U.S. were among the few nations of the contemporary world which had governments solidly and deeply established in the assent of their people. Such governments, called "legitimate" by Guglielmo Ferrero, depend neither on force nor transitory popular favor. They must show a reasonable consistency between theory and practice, between the way the government is supposed to work and the way it actually works. They must be established long enough for their...
What She Must Do. Personifying the authority she cannot wield, the Queen has duties that far exceed her powers, and must sign thousands of papers. She enacts laws by and with parliamentary assent, appoints judges and magistrates who act in her name,* confers titles and creates peerages. She is supreme head of the Church of England and the Church of Scotland, which makes her an Anglican south of the Tweed, and a Presbyterian north of it. She is guardian of infants, idiots and lunatics (the Lord Chancellor actually does this job). If a condemned murderer should be pardoned, the Home...
...such royal, rolling phrases, King William III gave his gracious assent to the founding in 1701 of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, the Church of England's oldest missionary organization. The plantations, colonies and factories mentioned were largely the King's American colonies, which until the Revolution were the S.P.G.'s principal mission field. Besides standard ecclesiastical works, e.g., Patrick Smith's Preservative against Quakerism and The Faith and Practice of a Church of England Man, missionaries carried with them local helps such as Bishop Wilson's Essay Towards...