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...said, in admiration for the Great Emancipator. He went to England, somehow became a Presbyterian missionary, turned himself into an Anglican curate, made himself a Quaker when he was secretary to Quaker B. Seebohm Rowntree (cocoa). Trebitsch Lincoln, before World War I, got himself elected M. P. for Darlington, was accused in a secret session of Parliament of being a spy. Later it was rumored he had spied for both the Allies and Germany. He made his way to the U. S., was extradited to England, where he was convicted of forgery, imprisoned until the war's end. Then...
...Four years after Britain inaugurated the Stockton and Darlington Railway, the world's first public passenger carrying railway...
Died. Mrs. Lilian Janet Morley, 73; after long illness; in Baltimore. Widow of Johns Hopkins Professor Frank Morley, she was the mother of three Rhodes Scholars: wambling Litterateur Christopher Darlington (Saturday Review of Literature); Felix Muskett, editor of the Washington Post; Frank Vigor, member of the London publishing house, Faber & Faber...
...Wesleyan College Conference on U. S. Foreign Policy, noisy, beak-nosed Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, U. S. M. C., retired, exploded with a characteristic bit of Butlerese: "If there is another war I intend to make James Roosevelt go to the front line trenches. He is a lieutenant colonel in the Marines, and if his father starts up this war business I am going to see that he does. I am not afraid! Let them shoot me! I'm all through. Let's get shot here at home if we're going to be shot...
Meanwhile Dr. Darlington, down in the Haltian Mountains, was wending his way through the jungle behind a "pratico," who cuts out the trail with a machete. In 1934 the had made the first zoological studies in that particular region...