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Celebrating his 82nd birthday, Dr. Henry Horace Williams, professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina, said: "Regardless of where our sympathies lie, Germany will probably win the war and organize a United States of Europe. Hitler is trying to do the same sort of thing George Washington did when he organized the 13 American colonies. Both men met plenty of opposition. But I wouldn't compare the character of Hitler and Washington, for Washington was a greater character...
...Anti-Saloon League of America into a great political machine, only to see it die with the passage of the 20th Amendment (Repeal), two of the most zealous. Dr. Howard Hyde Russell and Dr. Francis Scott McBride, last week were again building. Dr. Russell last fortnight celebrated his 82nd birthday. Hale and vigorous, he said: "We've had a setback; we're going to have a comeback!" Dr. Russell and sad-eyed Dr. McBride, superintendent of the League, last week revealed to Philadelphia -first large city to see it in action-the technique of their comeback, a "mock...
...make it a stag organization Clem, or you would shut me out. I'm in my 82nd year and I stirred apple butter every Fall for years in the late 60s-in my kid days I didn't stir it in the back yard though. There was a house built over the spring on my father's farm in Pennsylvania. Downstairs was where the springwater ran through a big trough, and there was kept the milk "crocks," butter jars, etc. In that room, we churned the butter in a good old dasher churn...
Pope's Voice-Happiest feature of the Congress was that, even as Cardinal Dougherty was speeding up the China Sea (for the 82nd time) toward Manila, in the Vatican Pius XI was gaining strength, and as the Conte Rosso entered Manila Bay last week the Pope was being moved about in a wheeled divan, doing more work and receiving more visitors than at any time since he fell ill two months ago. As Archbishop O'Doherty said last week: "Our fervent prayers ascended to the high heavens, beseeching God to prolong life of such a great Pontiff. Thank...
...offer was deeply appreciated. . . ." However, until week's end when Mrs. Roosevelt was well enough to rise and entrain for New York she could not enjoy the kindly President's company, for he deserted her in order to attend his mother's 82nd birthday party at Hyde Park. Here all week in squirely fashion he entertained such notables as Winfield and Maria Jeritza Sheehan; Joseph E. Davies and Mrs. Marjorie Post Hutton Davies; Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney; Secretary Wallace; Edward A. O'Neal of the Farm Bureau Federation; John G. Winant of the Social Security Board; Charles...