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...Knights of. Columbus held their 41st international convention in Montreal. Every state of the U. S. and every province of Canada was represented. Seventy-five thousand new members joined the order during the past year, bringing the total membership up to 800,000. A feature of the convention was a speech by Supreme Knight James A. Flaherty, in which he challenged the Ku Klux Klan and other K. of C. detractors. He declared that the K. of C. would combat all combinations which seek to inject religious or racial bias into governmental or social life. He then sketched the vast...
Always a great lover of England, Mr. Van Alen equipped a Red Cross ambulance for the British Army during the Boer War and served in it himself. He was made a Knight of the British Division of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. His passion for things English earned him many an accusation of Anglomania in his own country...
Past History. From 1918, after its conquest by British Forces, until July 1, 1920, Palestine remained under British Military Administration. At that date a Civil Administration was set up with the appointment of Sir Herbert Louis Samuel, P. C. (Privy Councillor), G. B. E. (Knight Grand Cross Order of the British Empire), as High Commissioner...
...Chairman, J. G. Flint, Eleanor Musgrave; D. Dunscombe, Kathryn Knight; J. Wilder Kinan Wilder; R. Robb Jr., Catherine Robb; V. Chapin, Esther Washburn; C. C. de Gersdorff, M. Duane...
Benito Mussolini, Premier of All the Italians, received the order of Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath from King George V. He is now at liberty to appear in the 1924 issue of Who's Who as Sir Benito Mussolini...