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...banquet his father, aged 88, was enroute to his winter home in Florida. At Savannah, Ga. his train stopped for 15 minutes and deferential reporters sidled into his car. They asked the beaming old man whom they saw for a statement. He smiled and read to them a tract in his modulated voice: "A smile is the greatest thing in life. There is nothing like a smile to bring cheerfulness, and the world would be worth but little were there no smiles...
...arising out of the oil scandals of 1924 was of greater interest to society than the outcome of the criminal suits still pending. The necklace in the case was an oil reserve worth 100 millions and the owner was society. The decision restored to the U. S. Navy the tract of 9,321 oil-bearing acres called "Teapot Dome" in Natrona County, Wyo., which onetime (1921-23) U. S. Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall leased in 1922 to Oilman Harry F. Sinclair & associates to develop and operate on a royalty basis for gas and oil "as long...
...address begins as a novel and ends as a tract, the recent general strike in England developing from a background into a thesis. The reader is left with an impression of Mr. Wells as a very sincere and vigorously intelligent man who has grown impatient and tedious...
...International Bible Students' Association represents a religious phenomenon now about 50 years old. It began with "Pastor" Charles Taze Russell who organized the Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society in Pennsylvania to spread his interpretations of the Old & New Testaments. Moving to Manhattan he incorporated the People's Pulpit Association for the same purpose. Later, in London, the International
...Minister" of a "Cabinet" His office is deliberately misnamed "President" to give Irishmen a sense of greater freedom. They, no fools, are prone to remember that the similarly misnamed "Irish Free State" is presided over by His Britannic Majesty's Governor-General, Timothy Michael Healy, author of the tract "Why Ireland Is Not Free...