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CECILIA W. WELBURY Upper Darby, Pa...
Last week a judgment for $250,000 plus $132,756,78 in interest, stood against the Benedictine Society of Latrobe, Pa.-corporate name of the community of St. Vincent Archabbey. Decade ago the late Archabbot Aurelius Stehle, who had established a Catholic University in Peiping, China, borrowed $250,000 from Peiping's National City Bank at 7% (legal Chinese rate), for repairs and new buildings. Archabbot Stehle died, control of the university passed from the Benedictines to the Society of the Divine Word, and the loan went unpaid. In 1936, the bank brought suit against the Benedictines, who countered...
Died. Arthur J. Smith, 41, frustrated Führer of the fascistic "Khaki Shirts of America, Inc.", of heart disease; in Shamokin, Pa. In 1933 "Commander-in-Chief" Smith claimed 6,000,000 recruits, established headquarters in Philadelphia, announced plans to march on Washington. When his plans fizzled, Smith...
George Marshall also began as a private (in 1902). But he had graduated from Virginia Military Institute, which in the Army is next best to West Point (or birth into an Army family). His great-great-grand-uncle was interested in coal and coke mines near Uniontown, Pa., where George Marshall was born on the last day of 1880; his great-great-grand uncle was John Marshall, greatest U. S. Chief Justice. Soldier Marshall was a mere first lieutenant in 1916. During the World War he got a temporary colonelcy, a chance to demonstrate his brilliance at staff direction, finally...
...Vermont poor boy, Thad Stevens was admitted to the bar in John Wilkes Booth's birthplace, Bel Air, Md., practiced law in York, Pa. He had the tough, narrow tenacity and discernment of the perfect sectional and sectarian infighter. As far as he saw, he saw clearly; as far as he thought, he thought honestly and without sentiment. His passionate sympathy for the Negro found fearless expression in his years of intimacy with his mulatto housekeeper, Lydia Smith, generally accepted as his common-law wife...