Word: manly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Never to be caught out on a point of church law, Bishop Manning consulted 77-year-old lawyer George Zabriskie, for 25 years Chancellor of the Diocese. Then he wrote Dr. Reiland a letter forbidding the service. The letter referred to the book of common prayer, last court of appeal in Episcopalian disputes, which says: "... No man shall be ... suffered to execute any of the said functions [of the ministry] . . . except ... he hath had Episcopal consecration or ordination." Said the bishop's letter: "I must earnestly beg you, and I do hereby officially admonish you, not to carry...
Birthday. Samuel Insull, utility man; at Chicago...
...found both Thomas Mann and Gustav Stresemann (then an unfamed Reichstag Deputy) ranged hot on the side of Kaiserdom and Conquest. Mann's War-time essays, Reflections of a Non-political Man, show that he shared the general will to spread kultur by the bayonet. Like Stresemann he changed his whole political philosophy after defeat. Both men have been flayed as opportunists. Last week in strongly Royalist Munich, where Republican Mann still lives, news of the Nobel Prize was frigidly received by the newspapers, given scant space, small praise...
Seventeen minutes flat was the time it took Germany's famed "Iron Man," Dr. Hjalmar Horace Greeley* Schacht, to read entirely through before he would sign, last week, the Charter and Statutes of Europe's new Bank for International Settlements (TIME, Sept. 23 et seq.). The official text, adopted after a six-week negotiation by world potent bankers at Baden-Baden, is in English. Delegates from the U. S., Britain, France, Italy and Japan signed without conning over a document with which all, including Dr. Schacht, were excessively familiar. That made six signatures. The seventh?Belgium's?was not affixed...
...himself has admitted practicing the lowest profession?pimping?at Marseilles, where he guided low-minded tourists to the foulest stews in France. But when presented to Victoria, eleven years after the death of her husband Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe, Alexander Subkoff seemed personable, a gentleman, an "interesting" young man...