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...though most Tories are reluctant to adopt a measure that might make the Lords even more ineffectual than at present, they fear that unless it is reformed, a future socialist government may abolish the Lords altogether on the ground that an upper chamber based on inheritance is a feudal relic that has no place in a modern democracy...
...operating headquarters, or to listen to its board of directors ceremoniously called to order in London as ''the Annual General Court of the Governor and Company of Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay,'' one might think that the Bay is a historic relic. In fact, it is one of the most aggressive and up-to-the-minute firms in Canada...
Maurice Hudson Thatcher is a gnarled, 92-year-old relic of Panama Canal construction days and still has a pioneer's proprietary interest in the Canal Zone, which Teddy Roosevelt leased from Panama in 1903. The only living member of the Isthmian Canal Commission responsible for digging the waterway, Thatcher served five terms as a U.S. Congressman from Kentucky, had a powerful voice in canal legislation. Thatcher Highway and Thatcher Ferry in the zone bear his name, and last week Thatcher was pleased by a third honor: he arranged to have a new bridge named Thatcher Ferry Bridge...
...mile to the west there stands a little yellow house, with a green paling, and a crowd of people pulling it all down. It is the house of the great train-robber and murderer, Jesse James, who was shot by his pal last week, and the people are relic-hunters. The Americans are certainly great hero-worshippers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes...
Because he so strongly resisted the ideas and political trends of the 19th century, Pio Nono has seemed to many historians to be a relic of medieval times. Yet many Catholic scholars defend his courage, if not his wisdom, and regard him as the founder of the modern papacy. Pope John XXIII regards Pius IX as "an admirable shepherd," whose beatification will be an appropriate symbol of the aims of the Council...