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...Thomas de Torquemada, notorious Grand Inquisitor, celebrated the first great auto-da-fe (circa 1450), which began by a solemn procession of the Holy Office and its functionaries, followed by condemned heretics and penitents. Mass was celebrated and all present-including the King of Spain-took an oath of obedience to the Holy Inquisition. Finally the Grand Inquisitor delivered a sermon and read out the sentences of condemnation and acquittal. Contrary to general belief, the condemned were not burned during the auto-da-fe proper, but were handed over to the civil power, by which they were exterminated hours...
...bear the outward sign of the rolling stone are still of the ancient order spiritually. Yet when there stands before the figure of one who was a true vagabond inwardly as well as outwardly, we cannot but do him reverence. Such a one was Chateaubriand a man whose I fe was a series of magnificent gestures and of him I go at 12 o'clock to hear Professor Babbitt speak in Comparative Literature 11 in Harvard...
...Tokyo since last fall. It was slightly less than a year ago that Mr. Coolidge named Edgar Addison Bancroft, Ambassador to Japan (TIME, Sept. 8). The new Ambassador was a Chicago lawyer who had never before held public office. He had been attorney for several railways-the Santa Fe, the Chicago & Western Indiana-and for the International Harvester Co. He had come into prominence in 1894 when he procured an injunction against the railway strikers who had tied up almost all the railways entering Chicago, and afterwards helped to send Eugene V. Debs, strike leader, to prison for six months...
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe...
...some 72,000,000. Two-fisted and far from scrupulous, he turned to speculation in railroad stocks, buying and selling roads on a great scale. At one time, he was credited with controlling every important through railway route west and southwest of St. Louis except the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe and the Atlantic & Pacific. He was credited with control, at one time or another, of the Erie, the Union Pacific, the Kansas Pacific, the Denver Pacific, the Missouri Pacific, the Wabash, the International & Great Northern, the St. Louis Southwestern, the Texas Pacific, the ron Mountain- together with the Western Union...