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...British Scout law of Lord Baden-Powell is long and rambling, the U. S. Scout law brief, better written. British Law No. 2 says: "A Scout is loyal to the King and to his officers and to his parents, his country and his employers. He must stick to them through thick and thin against anyone who is their enemy or who even talks badly of them." The U. S. Law No. 2 says simply: "A Scout is loyal. He is loyal to all to whom loyalty is due: his Scout Leader, his home and parents and country." Aside from...
...home in the drawing rooms of the rich and great, the acquisition of "Inisfada" was almost routine. Though they enjoy no personal property, many Jesuits work and study in places like the vast Massachusetts estate of the late W. E. D. Stokes, and in the hotel at West Baden, Ind. which the late Edward Ballard gave them. To the giver-away of "Inisfada" and its treasures, Mrs. Genevieve Garvan Brady, the decision she made public last week marked a definite turning point in an unusual life...
...Blattner of St. Louis & Jimmy McClure of Indianapolis: the world's men's doubles table tennis championship; at Baden, Austria...
...casino he was shrewd and businesslike. No local resident was ever permitted in his gambling rooms, no liquor was ever allowed, all patrons had to wear evening dress, no employe was permitted to wager a nickel. One year Gamester Ballard made $1,000,000. He bought the West Baden Springs Hotel, and later, with a Detroit gambler, Robert ("Silver Bob") Alexander, also opened a gambling place at Miami. After a time Ballard withdrew from the Association. In the same era he plunged into the circus business. He bought Hagenbeck & Wallace Circus which was about to go on the rocks, soon...
Depression cut into the revenues of Ballard's French Lick and West Baden business and one day in August 1934, realizing that he was over 60, he came suddenly to a decision. No Catholic, Ballard on the inspiration of the moment presented his huge circular West Baden Springs Hotel (once valued at $3,000,000) as a gift to the Jesuits, to be turned into a college. Before the day was out he called his cousin and employe, Norman Ballard, into his office and sold him Brown's and the Gorge, a neighboring gambling place. By nightfall...