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Rise of a Country Priest. The Bishop of Treviso surprised everyone and irritated some by making young Don Sarto a canon-a post hitherto held exclusively by noblemen. In his first speech before the Treviso seminary as its spiritual instructor he said: "I am no professor, just a country priest, whom God has most unaccountably brought among you. Remember that study and knowledge and science, excellent things in themselves, are perverted if they become objects of pride...
After more arrests, hunger strikes, and "Prison Special" tours of the country, in 1919, President Wilson gave in, along with a number of hitherto reluctant Senators, and an amendment passed both Houses by the required two-thirds vote. By 1920 the necessary three-fourths of the states had ratified the amendment which provides that "the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account...
...Butler was picked to find the answer. He took over the two chairs and one desk which constituted the Tory research department, and set to work "to wrest the initiative in the realm of political ideas from the Left." His first step was something hitherto unknown in Tory circles-he called on party members for ideas. Said Rab: "When I first knew the Tory Party, policy was brought down from Mount Sinai on tablets of stone. The faithful who waited for the tablets were often blinded by the light they...
...UNKNOWN CHEKHOV: STORIES AND OTHER WRITINGS HITHERTO UNTRANSLATED (316 pp.) - Anton Chekhov - Noonday...
...they polled a higher percentage of the total vote than at the 1951 election. In Hull the gain was a solid 3.65%. In 27 by-elections since the general election in 1951 that returned them to power, the Tories have held all their own seats (15) and won one hitherto-safe Labor seat-the first time in 29 years that a government has taken a seat from the opposition in a by-election. The record, said London's Econ omist judiciously, "is something of a triumph" for Churchill's government...