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Slums & Strikes. He was bom on Dec. 17, 1874 in Berlin, Ontario, a town which later, in the fever of World War I, changed its name to Kitchener. His first political asset was the endowment of a historic name. Grandfather William Lyon Mackenzie, a stern and pious man who fled at 25 from awful poverty in his native Scotland, was a journalist, politician and rebel. He had led an armed rebellion in 1837 against an aristocratic oligarchy which was throttling representative government in what is now Ontario. The uprising was short-lived and forced him into exile, but it earned...
...Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, 58, Britain's pious, blatant top field commander...
Onward Christian Soldiers. In Saskatchewan, a returned antitank battery explained why it was called the "Pious 65th": it boasted three Bishops, two Parsons, one Churchman and one Goodenough...
...home, the uproar was augmented by understandably yearning relatives, and by others of more distant and dubious kin ship. The leftist National Maritime Union called a nationwide one-day strike to dramatize a pious demand for more troop ships. The Communist Daily Worker, in a front-page editorial, explained that the strike was called "in the name of the American people to get [G.I. Joe] home and prevent his use in imperialist intervention...
Logan Pearsall Smith is the only son of a family of pious, prosperous Philadelphia Quakers. He was doomed to a career in the family bottle factory when he coaxed from his father an annuity on which he was able to live austerely, but without working, for the best part of his life. He at once set out (1888) for England, where he has remained (except for brief periods) ever since. In 1913 Logan Pearsall Smith became a British subject...