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...alone knew the secret of its operation was absent. When nothing better than a $50,000 bid could be aroused for the entire property, a lawyer for the estate bid it at $60,000. He spoke vaguely of making the estate a hotel for Negroes, or a "national cultural shrine...
From the roof a zealous Moslem priest espied this sacrilege, howled to the rabble: "A woman has desecrated the shrine...
...sufferings of Washington's army have made this place famous. ... It is a shrine to the things of the spirit and the soul. . . . Here men endured that a nation might live. . . . They met the crisis with steadfast fortitude. . . . We pay tribute to those in all wars who have stood steadfast. . . . The American people are going through another Valley Forge at this time. It is an hour of unusual stress and trial. You have each your special cause of anxiety. So, too, have I. The whole nation is beset with the difficulties incident to a world-wide depression. . . . Many have...
...airdrome near Tokyo one morning last week. There was many a speech, a song especially composed. A message of "highest regard" to President Hoover was handed over by the publisher of the Hochi Shimbun. Then youthful Seiji ("Kite Crazy") Yoshihara gulped a swig of consecrated sake from the Meiji shrine and jumped into his little low-wing Junkers seaplane. Someone pulled down the flag and handed it to the airman and he was off for Washington, D. C., alone...
...absence of Indian relics near the new skeletons was what suggested they were the remains of white men. But without waiting for the arrival of Expert Parker, the excavators continued digging in the Hill of Torture. They found five more skeletons. Then Rev. Peter F. Cusick, director of the shrine, and Curator John E. Wyman of the Montgomery County Historical Society became suspicious. The hill crest must have been the burial ground not of the martyrs, but of those who had tomahawked them. A leaden trinket, tortoise-shaped, seemed to indicate an Iroquois burial ground...