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...Leopoldo Kahn, born an Alsatian Jew, now a French citizen and for 46 years a resident of these Islands, was given the Order of Pope Pius IX by Archbishop O'Doherty with all the appropriate ceremony. Don Leopoldo has always befriended the Church, aiding its charities and giving the country twelve good Catholic sons and daughters (by two wives, mestizas both of them). He was in close contact with the Vatican during the late War and is considered a great friend of Catholicism without ever having professed it as his religion...
...purplest passage he proclaimed: "It represents four or five billion dollars' worth of lost liberty and the erection of a corresponding. Presidential speculation. It was born in the mysterious dark; it has defied intelligent illumination; its only merit is a pious, puzzling hope; its program is a lottery, and its only justification is the counsel of desperation...
...Clay Williams first went up from North Carolina to deal with the New Deal on behalf of the tobacco business. He was a powerfully-formed, slow-spoken man of Scotch-Irish ancestry, born in Iredell County, part of Representative Bob Doughton's Congressional district. As a young lawyer he was picked by the late Richard J. Reynolds and brought up in the tradition of the company that makes Camels: a company in which every director is a salaried officer and gets down to the plant in the morning at the same hour as the men. That tradition does...
John Tyler, tenth President of the U. S., was born in Charles City County, Va. in 1790. His son Lyon Gardiner Tyler died in Charles City County, Va. last week...
During his Presidential term (1841-45) sturdy, self-willed John Tyler lost his first wife and, at 54, married 22-year-old Julia Gardiner, a Roman Catholic. To this union, when John Tyler was 63, was born Lyon Gardiner Tyler. Another son was born four years later...