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...During the draft riots of 1863, mobs stampeded the streets, hunting Negroes. The Church of the Transfiguration had previously been believed to be an "underground station" for runaway slaves. Dr. Houghton, stanch Abolitionist, hid many Negroes in it during the riots, once stood defiantly at the gate shouting: "You white devils, you! Do you know nothing of the spirit of Christ?" Today in the Church is a memorial to George & Elizabeth Wilson. Negro doorkeepers, representing the baptism of the Ethiopian by St. Philip...
...second change of management was the dropping of Amadeo Peter Giannini, his brother Dr. Attilio H. Giannini, his not robust son Lawrence Mario Giannini from the directorate, and also their good & stanch friends Prentis Cobb Hale of San Francisco and George Newell Armsby of California Packing. The long suspected LYNN PORTER TALLEY . . . does not let enthusiasm replace collateral. Giannini-Walker feud broke into the open with this news. Founder Giannini announced his resignation had been presented last June "because I could not approve of the plans, policies and procedure of my successor, Chairman Walker." Ironic was this statement since Founder...
...Senator George William Norris of Nebraska, Governors Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania and Roosevelt of New York, to whom dripping Wet Governor Ritchie may have referred, are all stanch proponents of Government-owned or Government-regulated Power. The first two are Drys, the third a muted...
Echo from Lambeth. Before the Convention opened in Denver Auditorium, with 10,000 visitors, Bishop Perry, stanch opponent of divorce, had said in a sermon of welcome that "Christian marriage rises above the consideration of expediency and human desire. . . . The bond between husband and wife, once sealed in the name of God, is subject not to the will of man but to divine will." To preach the Convention's opening sermon had come Rt. Rev. Michael Bolton Furse, stocky Bishop of St. Albans. London. Significance: he was a leader of the opposition (unsuccessful) to the limited endorsement of Birth...
Died, Frank Harris, 75, author, editor and critic (Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions; The Man Shakespeare; My Life and Loves); of asthma; in Nice. Fearless, blatant, egocentric, he had many bitter enemies, a few stanch admirers; his books were often attacked as obscene, sometimes suppressed. Fleeing school in Ireland at 14, he went to the U.S., worked as bootblack, sandhog, hotelclerk, cowboy, became a lawyer and a U.S. citizen. He went to Europe, drifted from one university to another, finally settled in London to edit The Saturday Review, for which he hired Max Beerbohm, Herbert George Wells, George Bernard...