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Having backed Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence's Arab revolt in the desert, Allenby ran off his climactic campaign in the autumn of 1918. On the actual field of Armageddon, dread coastal plain where St. John the Divine predicted "thunders and lightnings . . . a great earthquake . . . a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent," Allenby fought his greatest battle, won his title, feinting at the Turks' centre with cavalry, rolling up their right with infantry. With the fall of Aleppo and Damascus, the Central Powers were cut off from their allies in the Near...
Unlike Catholics and Episcopalians, Methodists do not believe in that "Apostolic Succession" by which bishops derive their spiritual powers from an unbroken line of bishops dating back to the time of Christ. Methodists feel a Methodist bishop is just a plain man in an ordi- nary business suit who puts "Bishop" rather than "Rt. Rev." or "Most Rev." before his name. He is not attached for life to any one diocese but may be transferred from one Methodist "area" to an-other by the conference which elects him. Last week in Columbus, Ohio the 3 2nd quadrennial General Conference...
...collar-ends flapping and his short, iron-grey hair rumpled, showed up at his office in the State House for his 11 o'clock press conference. Seven newshawks were waiting for him. "Well, well, look who's here," twanged the Governor, a wide smile crinkling his plain, friendly face. "Top o' the mornin' to you all." Slouched back in his chair, brown eyes half-closed behind his octagonal rimless spectacles, the Governor talked about the weather, a fishing trip he planned to take, the lack of news. "You know, boys," drawled he, "I didn...
...Starhemberg for control of the Austrian Cabinet continued last week amid smoking newspaper headlines. Prince von Starhemberg started matters off last month by waiting until Chancellor Schuschnigg was in Italy to crack wide open the scandal of the failure of Jewish-controlled Vienna Phoenix Life Insurance Co. His plain purpose in smearing this $150.000,000 bankruptcy through the Press was to whip up anti-Semitism in Vienna, cause a Cabinet crisis that would allow his Heimwehr to take over the Government (TIME, April 20). Chancellor Schuschnigg's next move was to attempt to force the dissolution of Prince...
Paul S. Connolly '36, of Jamaica Plain, has been chosen captain of the Jayvee baseball team...