Word: righte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...truth, according to a statement issued by a committee headed by the Archbishop of York, the Right Honorable and Most Reverend Cosmo Gordon Lang, there is no room in the Abbey for memorials to future eminent dead. Said the Archbishop: "The time has now come when the nation must decide whether or not Westminster Abbey is to retain the place it has held for centuries as the shrine of the nations memorials to great men and women. Delay in making this decision is no longer possible...
Whether or not the British have a right to prevent the building of the dam, seems to be a moot point. The conclusion of the Italo-British Treaty, which divided Abyssinia into spheres of influence, has been hotly denounced by Ras Taffari at the League of Nations, of which Abyssinia is a member. Moreover, the Anglo-Abyssinian treaty has been called unilateral (benefiting only Britain) and therefore not valid, according to the League. If this is so, Ras Taffari would merely have to denounce it to make it null and void and Britain could prevent the building...
...nine Protestant Episcopal churches in Europe* last week received a new bishop-in-charge. Their bishop had been the Right Reverend Charles Henry Brent, who, besides, held the see of Western New York. But Bishop Brent, 65, has been ill and for several weeks in Johns Hopkins Hospital at Baltimore. The double diocesan work threatened too much labor for his strength. He resigned his collateral work in Europe. John Gardner Murray, presiding bishop, at once communicated with another able churchman, rugged Bishop William Lawrence. Bishop Lawrence, 77, last June resigned from the Diocese of Massachusetts, where his coadjutor bishop...
...through exchange of stock, merged with the Norwegian Hydro-Electric Co. and that the latter is contemplating a great expansion of its operations for fixation of nitrogen through a loan of $20,000,000 which it expects to get through one of the great American banking organizations.* "Is it right?" questioned Dr. Herty, "that the savings of our people should be directed by this institution to the support of a European monopoly which will seek the destruction of the American nitrogen fixation industry, now so rapidly developing in ... (this) country?" Dissenters. Chemical executives, thus far unnamed, meanwhile have been active...
Then a supplementary report was made public. The Department of Commerce had actual figures to reveal. They were for 1924, but they were right and, with the League of Nations aiding, comparisons with the income of other powers became available. Pitiful contrasts they proved...