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...required that all its ministers, no matter what their sect, be nominally of the Established Church. A member of that province's House of Burgesses, Muhlenberg fought in the battles of Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth, Yorktown, was a major general at the close of the Revolution. A friend of Jefferson and Monroe, he represented Pennsylvania in Congress during its early years, was chosen as Pennsylvania's Senator but resigned to be district supervisor of revenue, which he thought a more useful post. John Muhlenberg died in 1807, aged...
...then upholding a similar one passed in Washington. His parable: Suppose that an old statute taxed horses at $10 a head and ducks at 10? that in time horses became worthless and ducks valuable. At this point legal scholars would redefine the duck, would inevitably rule that "Thomas Jefferson once remarked to his wife that his horses were worth much more than his ducks. Differences between feathers and hair were never mentioned by any of the founders. Therefore, it is apparent that the web-footed animals are really horses, and the creatures with hoofs are really ducks...
...past ten years the U. S. Military Academy has been the only major football-playing college in the U. S. that has not had the three-year varsity eligibility rule. Such Army All-Americans as Elmer Oliphant (Purdue 1914), Ed Garbisch (Washington & Jefferson 1921), "Light Horse" Harry Wilson (Penn State 1924) played varsity football three or four years at their respective alma maters and four more for Army.* This situation roiled many an opponent. In 1928-29 the Naval Academy refused to have any truck with the Army footballers, and the Big Ten for the past three years has banned...
Representative Joseph Jefferson Mansfield of Columbus, Tex. is one of the two members of Congress who operate in wheel chairs.* A gentle, mild-mannered oldster of 76, who has been paralyzed since 1921, Congressman Mansfield created a furor in 1932 when he rolled himself down to the rostrum to sign a petition to discharge the Judiciary Committee from further consideration of a proposal to modify the 18th Amendment, and thus bring it to the floor. His was the 145th signature which the petition needed to become effective, a coincidence by which Congressman Mansfield professed to be greatly surprised. Last week...
...Married. Jefferson Caffery, 50, U. S. Ambassador to Brazil, to Gertrude Mc-Carthy, Chicago socialite daughter of the late Colonel Daniel E. McCarthy, onetime A. E. F. chief quartermaster; in Rio de Janeiro...