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...reasonable or just. . . . [The Puritans] spurned democracy, they persecuted conscience . . . taxed without consent." He had intended to say, and in the pre-issued version of his speech did say much about the narrow religious horizons of Englishmen in the 17th Century and their desire to persecute Catholics. After dis- cussion with the Tercentenary Commission, however, he orally deleted about one-third of what he had written and in the following sentence interpolated as follows: "Little did the founders reckon that a time would come when the New Canaan would be largely occupied by men of the splendid Irish race, whom...
...Paris, famed Pianist Ignace Jan Paderewski, 69, was caught in a rain storm, dashed for shelter, thereby dis covered?since the effort caused him no pain?that his physician has cured him of phlebitis (inflamed veins...
...such a conclusion from Dr. Mark Raymond Harrington of the Los Angeles Southwest Museum: he had discovered remains of a man-made fire under seven feet of gypsum in a Nevada cave. The fire was surrounded by bones of a giant ground sloth which apparently the fire-builder had dis patched and eaten. Also in the cave were discovered 900 man-things, including scores of long fighting darts, feathers bound with sinew (probably a religious piece), a white stone knife, gypsum pendants...
...recent British newspaper contest to dis cover the great personage who has the shortest title and address, the winner pointed out that to address correctly and respectfully an envelope to King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy requires the expenditure of but eight letters from which are formed three words: IL RE ROMA...
Appointed by President Coolidge to the U. S. bench in 1925, he has shown inde pendence in his Prohibition decisions, dis agreed violently with Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt's crusading activities. He won the cheers of Conservatives when he re fused to protect with an injunction radicals who were mutilating U. S. stamps with protests against marine intervention in Nicaragua...