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...World Council and its members were pleased by the fact that Protestant and Roman Catholic cooperation on the refugee problem was progressing. Taking part in the conference was Msgr. Jacob Weinbacher, chief of the Austrian Caritas, international Roman Catholic welfare organization. Said he: "When I received the invitation, I was hesitant. I asked my papal nuncio whether I should go ... whether I should merely sit or join in the talks. It is most fortunate that both churches have decided to meet the social implications of refugee work together...
...large gallery was on hand for the contest. China's delegate, Dr. T. F. Tsiang, was in the Security Council chair because it was his month, by rotation, to preside. He recognized the Soviet delegate, Jacob A. Malik. Delegate Malik did not return the compliment: he said he did not recognize Dr. Tsiang's right to preside or even to sit at the Council table. Dr. Tsiang, as a Chinese Nationalist, was just a "person who represents nobody," said Malik...
...Divine Providence permitted to occur, I was not too proud to report." City Editor John Bogart's definition became even more famous: "When a man bites a dog, that is news." To gather and write the new "human interest" stories, the Sun corralled such topflight reporters as Jacob Riis, Arthur Brisbane, Richard Harding Davis, Will Irwin, Irvin S. Cobb and Frank Ward O'Malley...
...When Jacob NicoL left his house one brisk September morning in 1946, the world looked bright. He was living comfortably in Roxton Pond, Que., had a profitable trucking business and a pretty dark-haired bride of two days. When he returned that night, his world had suddenly collapsed. His wife, Lucile, had left him to go back to her mother. Nicol knew what that meant. A Baptist, he had courted Lucile, a Roman Catholic, for seven years before eloping with her to Vermont. His widowed mother-in-law, Mme. Oviline Charrois Labrecque, made it clear that she was determined...
Last week, Justice François Caron, a Catholic, handed down his decision: $400 damages and the costs of litigation for Jacob Nicol. The court held that the marriage was legal beyond doubt, that the girl, being 23 years old, had every right to enter into a marriage contract. A letter from the Abbe to Lucile was introduced in evidence. It said, in part, "You must remain free . . . the marriage at Newport means nothing . . . Nothing obliges you to marry him . . . May le bon Dieu help you in your decision." In the court's opinion, this "constituted not advice...