Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last fortnight Mrs. Ector Orr Munn. daughter of the late Rodman Wanamaker, paid $10,496 for smuggling in new clothes. Mrs. Rudolph Lederer of Chicago paid $5,286 for the same reason...
This reference was to His Majesty King Ahmed Fuad I who, plump, dusky, serene and 61, arrived last week in Berlin on a visit the reason for which was vague to most Berliners. In art circles it was said that Egypt's sovereign was making strenuous efforts to have the German Government return to Cairo the famed bust of Queen Nefertete, excavated by German archeologists in 1913 and considered one of the most important of all Egyptian sculptures...
...driven from the Eden of our idealism, yet no angel with a flaming sword bars our return. At any rate, Dean Pound, a discerner of right and wrong of the malum in se and the malum prohibitum, the two varieties of apples that grow upon the same tree by reason of the grafting of law gives us home that we shall again come into that confidence which is essential to happiness. He said: "I am not without confidence "that the new era will find something in which to be confident." New York Times...
Resigned. Dr. Ozora Stearns Davis, 62, of Chicago. Congregational Minister; as president of the Chicago Theological Seminary; as Moderator of the National Congregational Council. Reason: serious illness.* Dr. Carl Safiord Patton, homiletic and practical theology professor, was elected to succeed Dr. Davis to the presidency. But he declined, preferring instead the pastorate of Los Angeles' First Congregational Church, whereupon his 1,750 new parishioners assembled, cheered in unison, voted a new million-dollar church...
Last week, Italy's Fascist Government, through counsel for Magno Santovincenzo, Acting Italian Consul in New York City, entered a claim in surrogate's court for the Comincio savings. Their reason: under Italian law. all estates of Italian citizens who die intestate without heirs, no matter where they had lived, revert to Italy's King upon their death...