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Recent notice to William Vincent Griffin of Peapack, N. J., and Manhattan that the Pope had made him a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory was but another mark of esteem to a man who, just turned 40, has been able to establish his real estate and industrial enterprises so well that he can now give considerable time to Catholic community welfare (Postgraduate Hospital, Calvert Associates, others...
...chapter called "Wasted Land" goes back to the last appearance of the Midwest's last purple people, the Dalton boys of Coffeyville, Kan. ... "A tall, harshly beautiful young man" (W. J. Bryan) comes out of Nebraska to be the Silver Knight; pallid Altgeld governs Illinois; Andrew Carnegie's detectives shoot strikers at Homestead, Pa.; solid Mark Hanna quietly bosses Cleveland; Coxey's army marches. . . . "California fruits and heiresses appeared seasonably in New York and were absorbed," but Frank Norris and Ambrose Bierce are supplied by the same place...
Eighteen days later he abdicated as King and Emperor at Amerongen, the moat-defended chateau of Count Godard Bentinck, a Knight of the Prussian Order of St. John of which Wilhelm II was the head. Only because of his oath "to aid any Knight of St. John in distress," did Knight Bentinck shelter Knight Hohenzollern...
...neighbors. The parish priest notes; the monsignor notes; the bishop notes; the archbishop notes; the Pope notes-and one day His Holiness welcomes the quiet worker into an order of Roman Catholic knighthood, symbol of his Church's esteem. Two U. S. men last week were so knighted-Banker James J. Phelan of Boston as Knight Commander of the Order of Pius IX,- and retired Industrialist Cornelius Gallagher of Manhattan as Knight of St. Gregory...
Fortune dubbed Vincent Richards her knight last week, as the Franco-U. S. mixed team tournament ended on the courts of the Parisian Racing Club. Three sets went 7-5, 4-6, 8-6-the middle one to Rene Lacoste, the other two to Vincent Richards. Miss Wills bagged two sets from Mme.Rene Mathieu, 6-3, 6-4. Howard Kinsy took two sets out of three from Paul Feret, 6-4, 5-7, 6-4. The Richards Lacoste play was uneven, ragged-served none the less to reverse Lacoste's triumph over Richards at Manhattan, last February...