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...Professor Hanna eventually dis proved those tenuous charges of modern ism. He obediently accepted the whole papal program. Pius X relented, made him auxiliary bishop of San Francisco and titular bishop of Titopolis (1912). A new Pope, Benedict XV, promoted the onetime suspect to the archiepiscopal throne...
...draft a report which may well alter the position of President Hoover on the issue. After 1 6 months of study it had not yet deter mined how deeply into Prohibition to delve. Commissioner Mackintosh's strong language, his robust character, indicated that there would be serious internal dis turbances if the Commission tries to side step the "guts...
...matter how unpleasant or dis tasteful, I shall continue to guide the investigation in Illinois along those same lines thus far followed . . . and with continuing instructions to our very small staff of assistants to use none but clean and honorable methods in ascertaining facts...
...Leguia: 'T am disposed to bow to any decision of armed forces. . . . Now those who take over the power will see the bitter difficulties of government." General Manuel Maria Ponce took com mand of the revolutionary junta. President Leguia sent an intimate, con soling message to his three daughters dis mayed at Chosica, a resort 30 miles from Lima. His two sons and he entered a swift motor car, sped to Callao, boarded Peru's other cruiser, Almirante Gran, sailed for Panama, where he had prudently arranged passage for Europe on a commercial boat...
...unnamed business. Often he arrives at his wells dressed in regular oil togs. But never have oilmen regarded Mr. Julian as one of them. They consider him a promoter rather than an operator. And last week they liked him less than ever. Dear to oilmen is curtailment. They dis agree on how to effect it and when, but as a principle it is their credo. No curtailer, it seems, is Oilman Julian. He has defied the rule, let his oil wells gush richly. Last week the Attorney General threatened and abandoned a plan to put his company into receivership...