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...Church against State. Courtiers foully murdered and mangled him on the very steps of his altar and Henry II did an abject penance. Stephen Langton (1207-22) persuaded Pope Innocent III to excommunicate King John for combating Church administration; he stirred the English barons to demand the Magna Carta of John; later (after John's death) he supported the crown against the nobles. Thomas Cranmer (1533-56), himself twice married (first to "Black Joan," relative of the landlady of the Dolphin Inn at Cambridge where...
...secondary school education were considered "seriously deficient in general education and general background." The motive for choice of the law by the latter was generally hope of increased salary. Few of them had any coherent notion of American or English history. One applicant was of the opinion that Magna Carta was a naval expedition...
...feature story last week a 16-line "message to America" signed by Mussolini. The "message" was inconsequential, but the paper on which it was written was significant. At the top is printed the bold letterhead: IL CAPO DEL GOVERNO (Head of the Government). Along the left margin is printed: "CARTA ITALIAN A DI PASTA E CELLULOSA DI PAGLIA PRODOTTA ESCLUS-IVAMENTE CON MATERIE PRIME NAZIONALI." ("Italian paper of paste and cellulose of straw, produced exclusively with national raw materials...
...forfeit, Dempsey $100,000, Wills $50,000. Every man in the land who reads a,sport sheet had an opinion to offer bn this historic scene, the culmination of four years of bickering. Some likened it to the Oath of the Tennis Court, the signing of Magna Carta, of the Treaty of Versailles. Others were more skeptical; among them...
...usually controversial, not to be written from text-books. It ought, however, to imply the study of important events and of a fairly long period, so that a series of eight essays approximates a connected study of what we should call a course. Such, for example, as "Was Magna Carta a reactionary fuedal document?" or "What was the effect of the French Revolution on English Politics and on the reform movement?" The essay should take some sixteen hours of preparation. It is possible to scamp the work a bit, but it is hard to believe that an Oxford tutor could...