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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: Possibly, Grandson Ulysses (TIME, Aug. 9, POLITICAL NOTES, p. 10) may be in error in believing that the General was christened Hiram Ulysses. I have in my possession two signatures- one written just after the unwilling cadet had been received at West Point-"U. H. Grant, Georgetown, Ohio"; the other, not long after graduation-"U. H. Grant, 4' Inf." Evidently, Grandson has the names reversed. CHARLES PLATT...
...TIME, June 21) with Signora Rachele Mussolini (née Guidi) and their daughter Edda, now recovering from an attack of diphtheria. During the week, Signor Mussolini, once the loudest and most often vocal of European statesmen pursued his recent "policy of silence" (TIME, May 3) by issuing three written orders: Sicilian Riots. General di Giorgio to proceed at once to Sicily with an armed force and full authority to put down the seemingly concerted series of anti-Fascist riots which have been occurring recently in Palermo, Caltanisetta and Girgenti. Universal Silence. All Fascists were "commanded" by a manifesto...
...long, courtly document, written out in longhand on glazed paper, was recently filed in a Manhattan court-the last Will and Testament of the late Cleveland H. Dodge, financier, philanthropist. During his lifetime he gave away $40,000,000, mostly to religious causes. He backed Woodrow Wilson in his last two campaigns. An official of the Y. M. C. A., asked for an estimate of his contributions, gasped: "Why, it would take weeks to get those figures together. . . ." Religious foundations had waited expectantly for the will to be filed. If alive he gave such vast sums to God, what would...
...conference in Battle Creek, Mich., the sect organized under the name "Seventh Day Adventist Denomination." In 1910 the religion had absorbed 400 ministers and 60,000 members, being more numerous in the U. S. than in Europe. Doctrines. The Seventh Day Adventists have no formal or written creed. The Bible is their rule of faith and practice. Their characteristic doctrines are: (1) The "Venerable Day of the Sun," from sunset on Friday to sunset on Saturday, is the Sabbath established by God's law and should be observed as such. (2) The personal, visible coming of Christ is near...
...famed as the novelist who interpreted the London Ghetto (Children of the Ghetto); in a nursing home in Sussex, England; of a break down due to overwork. Attendant at several English elementary schools, he stated that he was virtually self-educated. His literary handicraft produced The Big Bow Mystery (written to prove that it is possible to contrive a detective story in which the criminal cannot be detected by a reader until the last chapter) ; Jinny the Carrier; The Melting Pot. He was once listed as the third most eminent Jew in the world, Einstein considered relatively the first, Weizmann...