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Sway. When the College of Cardinals locked themselves up in the Hall of the Conclave to elect the 261st Pope, there was no medieval bickering and dickering for the office. All were agreed that the next Pope must be capable of vigorous action, a doer as well as a thinker, an executive as well as a mystic. The influence of the Church over the earth must be extended, its sway reestablished. The time. 1922, was propitious for both. Religions gain when peoples are spiritually disorganized and muddled, as they were just after the War and still...
...face of the court actions, Colonel Lea again demonstrated himself a fast thinker. To spar for time he moved to transfer the suits from chancery to Federal court. Then he "permitted" friendly receiverships against the individual papers, Memphis Appeals and Knoxville Journal, pending settlement of the action against their holding company. The receivers included executives of the papers...
Professor Karapetoff visited Harvard a few days ago and gave a talk on "Engineering." He is nationally known as a free-thinker and Socialist. His views on life are unusual and he further expressed himself by saying, "Polygamy is not naturally unlawful. Nature meets her ends in this way and does it more skillfully than we do in our way. We have cannibalism in nature, and this brings up the subject of 'Thou shalt nots', which rule cannibalism unconventional. However, if we had no conventions at all, within a few generations a new set of rules would be formed...
...ardent Sovialist: a talented musician anda owrld renowned mathematician the professor has earned a reputation as a free-thinker. He uses a spelling system of his own invention and often entertains his lecture audiences by performing on a five stringed cello which he developed himself...
Gangs. Police further identified Zuta as the "thinker" and bookkeeper of the anti-Capone North Side Gang headed by Joe and Dominick Aiello and George ("Bugs") Moran. Police raided the luxurious home shared by the Aiello families, seized a sheaf of papers they hoped would throw light on the Lingle case. Also last week they seized two shipments of whiskey and raided several breweries as incidental results of their Zuta investigation...