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OHIO: Daniel J. Crowley, Jr., Bowling Green; Ernest J. Dieterich, Akron; Kenneth S. Lynn II, Shaker Heights; Melvin L. Milligan, Massillon; James W. Warwick, Toledo...
...last minute, Middle Europe was spared an invasion, the consequences of which cannot be conceived. The German people truly are duty bound to give deepest thanks to its brave soldiers." German figures of losses and gains, especially as to planes, had to be taken with a whole shaker of salt. But even salted down, they told a story of quite probable victory. The High Command admitted the loss of 150 planes, admitted in general "moderate losses" - instead of, as in all previous campaigns, "light" or "surprisingly small" losses. But it claimed to have put 4,107 Russian planes...
OHIO: Daniel J. Crowley, Jr., Bowling Green; Ernest J. Dieterich, Akron; Kenneth S. Lynn II, Shaker Heights; Melvin L. Milligan, Massillon; James W. Warwick, Toledo...
...Shakers were content to let the race die out pending the arrival of a new order, thought to keep their colonies going by taking in orphans and children of dissolute parents. It didn't work. Before the Civil War, the four big Shaker colonies had 6,000 members. Today there are about 75. Part of the colony at New Lebanon, N. Y., whose meeting house is supposed to be the only early building in the U. S. with a barrel roof, has been sold. The rest is for sale. But its dozen or so oldsters stay on. The sisters...
...taught the Shakers to believe in a dual, male-female God and Christ-spirit, enjoined them to remain celibate. Sister and brother Shakers lived together as large "families," in communities headed by elders and elderesses of equal authority. Their large frame houses, in which the floors were divided to segregate men & women, still stand as marvels of pegged construction. They worshiped, with ritual marches, dances, gesticulations, in great meetinghouses. At a Shaker dance, brothers & sisters lined up facing each other, with palms upturned to receive God's blessings, singing songs like Shake Off the Flesh...