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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dourest and glummest of all Scotch religious sects are the famed "Wee Frees" (Free Church of Scotlanders), bitter-end remnant of the larger and broader Free Church which united with Scotch Presbyterians in 1900. With 92 ministers to guide them, the "Wee Frees" dwell glumly in the mist of the wild highlands, bemoaning their sins, brooding on Hell. Last week the "Wee Frees' " Assembly Commission met awesomely at Edinburgh. Before the day was out various Commissioners had censured as "Sabbath-breakers" not only Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald but Their Royal Highnesses the Duke & Duchess of York...
Even the official nuptials of Prince Franz (as distinguished from his morganatic marriage) were performed clandestinely some weeks ago at night behind closed church doors in Lainz, Vienna suburb. An anonymous threat of assassination if the marriage took place had been received. Even last week this fear hung over the long-thwarted lovers. Paradoxically both are immensely rich, envied by people who do not understand their years of trial. Princess Elsa is the daughter of an Austrian coal tycoon. Prince Franz is supposed to have inherited nearly a hundred million dollars-not to mention the ancestral Liechtenstein Art Gallery...
...Rumania, her sister Queen Marie of Jugoslavia, Prime Minister Zhivkovitch of Jugoslavia and members of the Royal Family, she took a lighted candle in one hand, the royal babe in the other, and walked around the sacramental table in the castle chapel while Patriarch Dimitrea of the Jugoslav Orthodox Church named the little prince Andreja (Andrew...
Aged 29, deacon, Protestant Episcopal Church...
Nominally he is James Empringham, 54, Doctor of Divinity, priest of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Last week he was accused of practicing medicine without a license, i.e. quackery. The evolution of his career has been as follows...