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HEROIC LIVES - Rafael Sabatini - Houghton Mifflin ($3). Richard Coeur de Lion, Francis of Assisi, Jeanne d'Arc, Sir Walter Raleigh...
...crowd chanted, "I'm Headin' for the Last Round Up," "I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascal, You," "Bye, Bye, Blackbirds." Finally Hernando went home to breakfast. Same day five other Negroes were executed- one at Tupelo, Miss, for murder; two at Raleigh, N. C. for murder; one for murder, one for rape, at Milledgeville...
...ancestry at each settlement. Accurate accounts of all the red tape through which the various colonizers had to go to achieve their goal, while not overpoweringly interesting are a most interesting change from the usual tales of colonial, hardship in the new world. The various charters and companies which Raleigh, Sandys and others had to wade through before they finally could settle here give the layman a new view of colonial life, one which apparently has failed to catch enough interest in scholars who might have devoted a book...
...spiritual sense. The Archbishop of Canterbury sometimes goes yachting with J. P. Morgan in the Mediterranean, but he does not wield much power outside his own Anglican world. Presiding Bishop Perry of the U. S. Episcopal Church and Presbyterian Moderator McDowell are not international figures. But Dr. John Raleigh Mott is. For his work as an organizer and inspirational leader in foreign missions he is famed from the Oasis of Helwan in Egypt to Herrnhut in Germany. As an active Y. M. C. A. man his influence has been felt from Finland to Jerusalem. Called "this Ulysses of modern missionaries...
...Oilman James Andrew Moffett lost his job as vice president of Standard Oil (New Jersey) because he could not agree with President Walter Teagle about Government price-fixing for oil. Last week he found someone who agreed with him: President Kenneth Raleigh Kingsbury of Standard Oil of California who gave him a new job as vice president and Manhattan representative of California Standard. ¶Last March, gold exports forbidden, the Administration hastily drafted to manage foreign exchange for the U. S., the man who had been virtual dictator of U. S. exchange during the days of disordered money...