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...Mitchell's potent objection to this bill?without which, it was conceded, machinery for juryless liquor trials can hardly be set up???served to squash the chances of any immediate legislation carrying out this prime recommendation of the Wickersham Commission. The Attorney General had strongly supported the Wickersham proposal when, as a theory, it was first presented. Now. when it was being shaped up into a legislative reality, he apparently saw its larger implications...
...Times") they spread their propaganda, Newman became so extreme an Anglo-Catholic that it was not long before he went the whole way and entered the Roman Catholic Church. He took many followers with him, but some balked. Said he: "A person in Devonshire is all but made up???he sticks at St. Cyprian. . . ." Newman's reception was chilly, to say the least; the Pope sent him congratulations on recovering from a wretched heresy. For years he was looked upon with suspicion by his new superiors, his suggestions ignored, his plans thwarted. In 1848 he was put in charge...
...will never return to Downing Street alive unless I can bring him. He and I must leave the hotel first and alone, and as soon as we two leave it is to be blown up???the end of the chapter of the 'Strange Affair at the Chequers...
England was healthy, wealthy, wiser than it knew. Upthrusting middle classes were doing wonders in commerce. All over Europe, Henry's age (1500-1550) was a time bursting with new vigor. Old disciplines were breaking down. New countries were opening up???America, Africa. India. The imaginations of men burned with dreams of gold to be brought back by far-ranging ships. Had there been newspapers then, the following names would have been in the headlines? Columbus, Cortes, Pizarro, Copernicus, Botticelli, Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Titian, Holbein, Cellini, Erasmus, Cranmer, Wolsey, Thomas Cromwell, Luther, Rabelais. Machiavelli, Loyola...
When came the turn of Cincinnati's Chamber of Commerce President James M. Hutton to express his plaudits at the Crabbs dinner last week (see above), he suddenly switched talk from railroad terminals to hospitals. The name of another hero then came up???that of Colonel William Cooper Procter...