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...better things desired by many mill owners, who had been having tough sledding for years, was surcease from cutthroat competition. President Sloan called his Institute members together and suggested that they form a code of fair competition. On that day General Hugh Johnson was still an unknown lieutenant of a famed speculator named Bernard Baruch. An offer from the Institute was sent to the President and a month later, before the Recovery Act was passed, Mr. Sloan marched into the White House and slapped a draft of the cotton textile code down on Franklin Roosevelt's desk...
...Knoxville Journal's front page of the same day was splashed a six- column close-up picture of the bare, bloody torso of a dead gunman, punctured by 23 police bullets. Such journalistic antics were unknown on the sedate Journal while Luke Lea owned it. But with onetime Publisher Lea in a North Carolina prison, the newspaper's control has been vested in the remote, impersonal hands of New Orleans' Canal Bank & Trust Co. and the present titular owner, Nat G. Taylor, son of Tennessee's late Governor. Meanwhile the editorial staff has delighted in doing as it pleases. City...
When 30 rooms had been gutted by flames the roof crashed in, effectively ruining two-thirds of Hillsborough Castle. "The cause of the fire is quite unknown," announced a spokesman for the Belfast Government, spiking rumors that Free Staters might have crossed to Northern Ireland to burn down the Castle. "Apparently the cause of the conflagration was accidental...
Because in Florence 701 years ago this week seven noblemen claimed, individually and unknown to one another, to have received ineffable visions and instructions from the Virgin, the Servites attribute the founding of their order to Mary herself. Dedicated to preaching and meditating on the nature of Christ's Mother, the Servites were established in the U. S. in 1870. Ten years ago in Portland the local fathers set about building a sacred grotto and grove to their patroness. Selecting a site atop a sheet cliff outside the city, they filled it with statuary, including colored tableau groups representing Mary...
...Germany, Max Muller's new word sprouted in fertile soil and quickly got out of hand. A considerable body of German scholars not only gave Aryan the widest possible linguistic meaning, but applied it as a race-name to the primitives who spread over Europe from their unknown homeland. These learned men asserted that Indo-Europeans were fair-haired, blue-eyed, resembled in all ways the ideal German...