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...Kansas City's Ivanhoe Temple, brethren of the Scottish Rite donned their fraternal regalia to honor 33rd Degree Member Harry S. Truman, 50 years a Freemason...
...come with me." Erhard nervously embraced his wife and climbed in. At the U.S. military government office he learned that the U.S. authorities, impressed by the lack of Nazi ties in his record, had picked him for Bavarian economics minister. But Erhard, a Franconian, a Protestant and a reputed Freemason, never hit it off with his clannish Catholic Bavarian colleagues. No great shakes as administrator and organizer of hand-to-mouth subsistence measures, he was already wrapped up in his plans for sweeping visionary changes. He lost his post in the next ministerial shuffle. It was not till the Bizonal...
...Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Lake Erie village of Fisherville (pop. 2,200), the answer is no. Nowhere in their prayers or ritual, he told his congregation in a sermon, do Masons make mention of Jesus Christ.* Furthermore, he had come upon a passage in a Freemason lexicon that defined the Bible as a "symbol of the will of God." Pastor Bauer concluded that such teachings were unChristian. He challenged lodge members to disprove his charges...
...Honorable Elizabeth St. Leger Aid-worth, the only woman Freemason . . . was initiated into Masonry in Lodge No. 44 at Doneraile Court, County Cork, Ireland, in 1712. Intentionally or inadvertently, the young lady was in an annex of the lodge room while a degree was being conferred. On attempting to escape from the room she was discovered . . . After considerable discussion, the members decided that only one course was open to them. The fair culprit, with a high sense of honor, at once consented to pass through the impressive ceremonials she had already in part witnessed...
...Sign. On the way home from dinner, Sandino, a Freemason, was seized by a group of armed men, and hustled away. Soon after, a Guardia officer called the barracks, reported that Sandino had given the Masonic sign of distress. Freemason Somoza, unmoved, roared: "Carry out your orders!" At La Aviación field, on the southeast edge of Managua, guns cracked. Sandino is buried, say Nicaraguans, just under the runway TACA planes...