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...built about 1740. It was the original Van Wagner homestead. They were one of the earliest settlers of the town. This shows that blood will tell." Said Supervisor-elect Van Wagner: "Gee, if I don't make good it's just...
...unfettered license not to believe or to disbelieve in a deity. . . . Undisguised, the plaintiff's attack is on a belief and trust in God. Such belief and trust, however, regardless of one's own belief, have received recognition in State and judicial documents from the earliest days of our Republic. . . . 'In God We Trust' has become an American aphorism stamped on our coins...
Edda, the Dictator's favorite child, gave her chubby husband, young Count Galeazzo Ciano, to the war in its earliest phase and he dropped upon Aduwa from his battle plane the historic bombs which began the conflict. Also airmen at the front are the Dictator's two elder sons, Vittorio and Bruno, and last week, after dropping bombs, each received Ethiopian bullets in the tail of his plane for the first time...
...editors of the "Advocate" have taken the only step open to them under the circumstances. That they should suffer from a puritannical trait that has been the curse of American art since its earliest days is patently unjust. The zealous and alert Mr. Leahy has accomplished another in a series of travesties of law enforcement...
...this mecca of the Coptic Christians practically surrounded. Scouting planes made hourly flights over it, could see no trace of Ethiopian troops. Still no attack was made, for in the centre of small Aksum stands a little crenelated stone church, holiest in the empire. There Ethiopia's earliest kings are buried. In it was supposed to lie the true Ark of the Covenant. Before such a Christian shrine Italy dared risk no accident that could be used to breed atrocity stories throughout the Christian world. Day after the official annexation of Aduwa, holy Aksum surrendered without a shot being...