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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...statement that the Archbishop of Canterbury repeated the Lord's Prayer in Latin at a Convocation. I was so sure that the Archbishop of Canterbury would not use Latin in public that despite your confirmation of the article, I wrote him about it, and received a very polite letter from his Chaplain explaining that the Lord's Prayer always was repeated in Latin at Convocations of the Anglican Church...
...President wrote a letter to The National Aeronautical Association that was meeting in Washington last week, and suggested that an international air conference and exhibition be held next year to celebrate the silver (25th) anniversary of "the first flight by man in a power-driven heavier-than-air machine . . . made by Mr. Orville Wright, one of our fellow citizens...
...prayer (TIME. Oct. 17). Upon this the War Department did not comment but ordered him to Walter Reed Hospital for examination. He went unwillingly-and last week Col. John T. Axton, Chief of Army Chaplains, was retired as of next April. Secretary of War Davis wrote him a letter expressing regret that he had been found "physically incapacitated for active duty." To succeed Col. Axton, who is a 57-year-old Congregationalist, the Senate was asked to confirm Lieutenant Colonel Edmund P. Easterbrook, 62-year-old Methodist Episcopalian. Chagrined, Col. Axton announced that he would join the staff of Rutgers...
...want to sell. It's warm there, but not too warm. . . . "My wife and my mother hear so much about what a terrible criminal I am. It's getting too much for them and I'm just sick of it all myself. . . . Today I got a letter from a woman in England. Even over there I'm known as a gorilla.† She offered to pay my passage to England if I'd kill some neighbors she's been having a quarrel with. . . . "I wish all my friends and enemies a Merry Christmas...
...have recently read that some one has discovered a letter of Thomas Jefferson, in which he related that the reason the Declaration of Independence was accepted was not because the committee liked it all so well, but because the hall where they were assembled was opposite a stable, and the delegates, being elegant gentlemen attired in long silk stockings just like those women wear today, were much annoyed by the gadflies biting their legs. Hence they adjourned quickly. Well, now I never heard that Thomas Jefferson was a jokester, but if he wrote that letter seriously, all I have...