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Crowds continued to flock to Tom Thumb Golf courses last week. City councils gravely debated whether it was a "real" sport and hence a violation of Sunday laws. A national open tournament on the original Chattanooga course was planned. And, more important, Garnet Carter sold his interests...
Granting, as both parties do, that many a Roman Catholic priest in Malta told his flock that to vote in a certain way would be a "mortal sin"* (for which absolution would be refused), does this constitute interference by the clergy in political affairs...
...rejoined the Vatican's White Book last week: The clergy never urged the people to deny their vote to Lord Strickland's or any other party, but the flock were warned not to vote for men whose attitude toward religion has been harmful in the past and may again be so in the future. Far from meddling in politics the Catholic Church was defending religion...
...English mechanic who I discovered, was a most brutal wife beater. A friend told me of it and I told the friend to have his wife tell Gillard that the next time he beat her, to come over here ["The Merry Mills," Cobham Va.] with her flock of children and I'd put her and them up at two farm houses on this place with my farmer and wife. He beat her shortly after. She and children fled here, while Gillard was out walking. He came home and followed her here. I always carry a 32 Smith and Wesson...
...miles away in Hampton Roads, via Washington where President Hoover stood at attention as they passed, 134 planes flew to a rendezvous at Staten Island, then swept up the bay over towered Manhattan. They flew in tight, three-plane V-formations which in turn formed larger Vs, a shining flock of metal hawks that filled the city's canyons with the hammering roar of war. At the head of the formation in a Martin bomber, constantly in radio touch with all his following and ordering their every maneuver, rode Lieut. Commander Alfred E. Montgomery, in charge of the flight...