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...other, for it may mean the preservation of the earth's last fortress of democracy. . . . Power is a heady wine. Few human brains can resist it, and certainly there has been no evidence, or even desire of resistance in the gentleman who seeks it now. He has gathered unto himself more power than any ruler on earth has, save in the totalitarian governments...
Matthew Parker was a pious, scholarly divine who took unto himself a spouse in 1547, when it was still illegal for clergymen of the Church of England to marry.* In 1560, as Queen Elizabeth's Archbishop of Canterbury, Matthew Parker was set to draw up a list of marriage prohibitions. The resultant Table of Kindred and Affinity, Wherein Whosoever Are Related are Forbidden in Scripture and Our Laws to Marry Together stands prominently in every Anglican church in England to this...
Died. Thakore Saheb Shri Dharmendrasinhji, 30, native ruler of Rajkot, India; of a heart attack; while hunting in the Gir Forest. It was to give the subjects of the despotic Thakore Saheb a voice in their Government that Mahatma Gandhi began his "fast unto death" in 1939, which he ended at the intervention of British Viceroy Lord Linlithgow, and the establishment of an advisory council...
...jitterbugging] was the same old showoff that mating animals have used far down the zoological line through the beasts of the fields, the birds of the air and the lightning bugs on a summer evening. At bottom it is deep calling unto the deep to keep the life stream flowing! How could it all be less than beautiful-this vast primeval panorama that flowed so slowly around the hall with its kaleidoscope of ever mingling colors and forms? . . . How could the slow, moving, billowy, syrupy music of the 'eighties fit into this new world picture? Youth had to construct...
...matter how many furies may frown or how fierce may be the bludgeonings of fate, I shall continue with a persevering faith to cling to those ideals which those great Americans who have gone before us gave unto us. ... I shall ever be mindful of the fact that if our community is to experience a resumption of prosperity . . . such resumption can only come when ... the proud plumes of smoke from the eager fires of our industries are backward blown, when our forests ring with the harmonious din of the woodsman's ax, when our mills resound with the melodious...