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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small alcoved room in Doneraile Court, a Miss St. Leger became the only lady Free Mason. The popular story is that she hid in a clock, her family says she happened to fall asleep on a couch; anyhow, whether by design or accident, she overheard what the Free Masons were saying, so they made her one of their number. In her portrait the lady . . . has a dogged, impassible face [see cut]. I support the idea of the clock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Shriners & Secrets | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

...societies. An inscription at the base of the monument states that it was erected to William Morgan "by volunteer contributions from over 2,000 persons residing in Canada, Ontario, and 26 of the United States and territories ... He was abducted from near this spot in the year 1826 by Free Masons and murdered for revealing the secrets of their order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Shriners & Secrets | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

...other incidental expenses involved in education, expenses for such purposes as the transportation of children to & from school, the purchase of non-religious textbooks and the provision of health aids." The Cardinal thought that Catholic pupils were entitled to such "auxiliary services," just as they were already entitled to free lunches under the School Lunch Act. Said the Cardinal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPINION: Truce | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

Said Trustee Bridges, who as U.S. Senator gets $12,500 plus a tax-free $2,500 expense allowance: "I am not going to be forced out ... by a lot of scurrilous criticism. And I wouldn't stay 30 seconds if I were not paid sufficiently to hire real counsel and advice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: I'm Awful Thankful | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

...battered, bustling towns of Western Germany, campaign posters and blaring sound trucks shattered summer's sluggish quiet. Next week, in their first free general election since Adolf Hitler seized power in 1933, Germans will choose 400 representatives for the Bundestag (lower house) of the Deutsche Bundesrepublik, the long-awaited Federal Republic of Germany. Chief contestants for power: the Christian Democrats and the Socialists. Their platforms had one vital plank in common: sharp criticism of the Western occupation powers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: The Beginnings | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

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