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Muscle Shoals, a Federal project, still hangs fire, but the Alabama Legislature at its last session authorized ten millions of state money for a state-controlled terminal at the port of Mobile, whither the Warrior flows. This action clearly certified the future of super-industry in Alabama and endorsed the condition Birmingham has in mind when, like pushful Chicago, Detroit and Los Angeles, it calls itself "Greater Birmingham." After years of "becoming," Birmingham was at last to be "great...
Stephen and Sally later eloped, settling in Nassau, whence Stephen sailed over the world in the Chantrell & Chantrell ships, and whither Cordelia went, still a fierce dark beauty in her mid-twenties, as The Messenger, President Jeff Davis's special agent, to discover what Yankee spy was betraying Confederate munitions smugglers. When this spy proved to be Preston Baimbridge, as faithful to his Northern cause as was Cordelia to her love for him, the second pistol shot was the only thing possible, fired by Preston Baimbridge into his own head...
...Albert of the Belgians stepped back from decorating M. Franqui. All the world knows that it was M. Franqui who negotiated the $100,000 000 loan which stabilized the Belgian franc (TIME, Nov. 8). Therefore King Albert warmly eulogized M. Franqui, bade him a pleasant journey to the Riviera whither he departed to recover his health, impaired by his great labors. Before he left Brussels, M. Franqui resigned as Finance Minister, but not until he had drawn up a voluminous memorandum covering every discernible contingency of Belgium's fiscal future...
...Destroyer. This was the man who "slew God." This was the man who "typified the vigorous logic that wrecked the universe" for very sympathetic Author Bradford. The significance and explanation are: 1) that Darwin, saintliest of men, though he may have been the critical instrument and though he saw whither his brave thought tended, was yet no more responsible personally for the catastrophe than was many another honest thinker just before him-the German metaphysicians, Herbert Spencer, Poet Goethe, Poet Emerson; 2) that those for whom God is a necessity, as He was not for Darwin, will recreate...
...That the armies of Super-Tuchun Feng Yu-hsiang, formerly "War lord of Peking," might swarm down again upon that city from Mongolia, whither they were driven during the summer by "Chang and Wu (TIME, June...