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...Pilgrim No. 1 was Acting Secretary George Novack of the American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky, whose most eminent member is Socialist Norman Thomas, no pilgrim as yet. Last June the Trotskyist Communists of the U. S. merged with the Thomasist Socialists. Normally benign, Mr. Thomas becomes vehement if given opportunity to deny "the canard" that perhaps Trotsky and Stalin are not altogether sincere undoers of each other's work. In the Thomas camp it is an article of faith that Stalin, as Dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, is an enemy of "true Socialism...
...another pilgrim, a Clerk; is of a different mind. As evidence for his belief in the rightful "souverainetee" of the husband he tells a story he has heard at Padua of a "learned clerke", "Fraunceys Petrark" by name. His tale must have impressed his hearers in opposition to his case...
...page primer of Stock Exchange history, policy and practice illustrated with scenes from the Floor and service departments. The booklet was prepared to be passed out to visitors and to satisfy unsolicited demands for simple explanations of the stockmarket's how & why. Most illuminating fact: each of the Pilgrim Fathers (arriving on the Mayflower in 1620) owned at least one share of a subsidiary of Plymouth Co., then active on the London stockmarket. Each Pilgrim Father also had the right to buy additional Plymouth shares at ?10 per share...
Anon Mr. Quincy with his discourse, great in matter and delivery. He paid due homage to the early presidents of this college and to our pilgrim fore-fathers whose devotion brought us our present greatness. More ceremonies, long and solemn, and then to the Pavilion for the festive part of the precedings. My heart bubbled to see the spaicous tent, the garlands, the festoons. Clatter of plates and glasses formed a song for the celebration. Soon speeches by Governor Edw. Everett, and then toast after toast until all our heads were swimming merrily in the good refreshment of the college...
Unlike such elaborate public patrons as the Carnegies, Rockefellers and Rosenwalds, Edward S. Harkness has set up no foundation, never attaches his name to his benefactions.* When in 1930 he established a $10,000,000 fund to aid British charities he called it the "Pilgrim Trust." Best of all he likes to scatter his largesse in out-of-the-way places. He has given $500,000 to California's Save-the-Red-woods League, $2,500 to Mrs. Stanley Baldwin to buy anesthetics for maternity hospitals. He once persuaded Great Britain to run a smelly motor highway around Grantchester...