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...John from their nets. The inscribed stone, only one yet found which could have been in existence in Christ's time, remained untranslated until Smithsonian's Dr. Lamsa deciphered it last week. He read: As a good memorial for Zebedee, son of John, who made this pillar as a memorial for himself. Amen. Presumably Memorialist Zebedee was the same father left by Disciple John and Brother James in the fishing boat with the hired servants...
Expressly avoided in the Jones decision was any opinion on the Securities Act's constitutionality. That pillar of New Deal reform stood unrocked. But Justice Sutherland was profoundly disturbed by the administration of the Act in the case of Royalist Jones. Said...
...rich lodes at Homestake soon grew richer as the shafts drove deeper. Astutely managed after George Hearst's death by his shrewd widow, Phoebe Apperson Hearst, and after 1914 by her cousin's son, retiring Edward Hardy Clark, who is still president, Homestake was for years a pillar of the Hearst fortune. "W. R.'s" block, now estimated at 14,000 of the original 42,000 Hearst shares, is worth about $7,000,000, yields an annual income...
...been shown, he was at least the No. 2 Traitor and the No. 2 Coward. What is known as British fair play won him upon his entry a veritable tumult of cheers from all parts of the House of Commons. His chief accuser, Nobel Peaceman Sir Austen Chamberlain, a pillar of official rectitude and a torch of moral indignation against The Deal, had been saving a place for Sam on the overcrowded third bench and as he squeezed into it. the pair cordially shook hands...
Burt J. (for nothing) Denman, 59, nervous, energetic vice president & general manager of United Light & Power Co., has an office in Chicago's Bankers Building, lives in suburban Wilmette. A devout Methodist, he has been vice chairman of the trustees of Garrett Biblical Institute and a pillar of First Church in Evanston. Burt Denman has lately had cause to wonder about Methodism. In Hearst-papers he has seen its preachers attacked as Reds. In Methodist journals like Zion's Herald and the chain of Advocates he has read editorials criticizing businessmen, bankers and especially utilitarians like himself...