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...left him, went to London, heard Atheist Charles Bradlaugh preach, became his right-hand woman. Fourteen years she wrote and harangued for Free Thought, finally saw Bradlaugh seated in Parliament. Once they stood trial together for publishing a birth-control pamphlet. Convicted, they appealed and this time won; sold 185,000 copies of the book in three years...
...ever use that ad again, put him in the thirties instead of the fifties. And, incidently, if there were some one with the forensic ability of Bryan who should arise at the present moment when there isn't enough gold to go around, and preach the free and unlimited coinage of silver I would vote for him as I did for Bryan. I wouldn't know what it was all about but that's no matter. Not many of us do. KENNETH C. BEATON...
...discovered Karl Arthur's platonic friendship with the organist's wife, shy Thea, Anna's native wit was not much help. Thea kept things on a spiritual plane, which baffled Anna considerably. Then Karl Arthur heard a call to resign his ministry and go to preach in the byways. Thea left her husband and went with him. Years later it was wise Charlotte Löwensköld who rescued Karl Arthur from the woman who was dragging him down, persuaded him to go to Africa as a missionary, eventually got Anna to join him there. Like...
Many a notable came to see the thousands of sleek porkers, fuzzy sheep, velvety kine, clucking fowl. Governor Emmerson of Illinois opened the poultry show, Chairman Legge of the Federal Farm Board came to preach his gospel of fattening stock on the nation's surplus wheat, Mrs. John Hertz (Yellow Cab) showed a group of australorps, antipodean fowl, from her farm at Gary...
...gold, Soviet propaganda. Once established in Nanking, the Nationalist leaders did their best to forget their Russian connections, but in southern Kiangsi province, through which they first advanced, Communist doctrines took such healthy root that there are today lusty bandit armies which march under Red banners, post Communist placards, preach Communist sermons in the intervals of strictly capitalist Private Looting...