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...Great Smoky Mountains lie between Tennessee and North Carolina, a primitive wilderness of virgin forests, fast-flowing streams, sky-tumbling peaks. Clingman Dome rises 6,619 rocky feet in the air.* Besides swarms of game, the woods shelter hundreds of mountaineer families, clannish, illiterate, strongly Anglo-Saxon, who preserve their tradition of armed feuds and moonshine. Six years ago lowlanders who had enjoyed vacations in the Great Smokies formed the Great Smoky Mountains Conservation Association, asked the U. S. Department of the Interior to create a national park on the tract. Congress marked off 704,000 acres as suitable, promised...
With striking lucidity Statesman Stimson proposed a clear-cut solution of the old, much-muddled Anglo-U. S. cruiser issue...
...Delhi 69 years ago. He went to Union College (1882) and General Theological Seminary. In 1885 he married a Schenectady girl. Leaving the simple life and worship of Delhi, he held several Episcopal pastorates in New York (Ilion, Little Falls, Hudson), adopted the extreme, elaborate ritualistic observances of the Anglo-Catholic group in the Episcopal Church. For the last 13 years he has been Suffragan Bishop of Chicago, a popular figure...
...financiers decided that Abdul the Damned's heirs had a good case in international law. With the understanding that they were to receive a fat slice of any funds paid to Abdul's heirs, they successively organized three corporations to push the legal battle: Anglo-Hellenic Corp., succeeded by Valideh Trust, Ltd., and finally Aegean Financial Trust. † Not satisfied with last week's 50 millions from Greece, officials of the Aegean Financial Trust announced that they had every hope of obtaining an additional billion for their clients from the Kingdom of Irak...
Week before last, in World's Press News (English weekly), one Garry Allighan. Anglo-American newspaperman, compared British news tactics disadvantageously to U. S. methods. Journalist Allighan said that he had been 14 years in newspaper business on both sides of the Atlantic. Holding every position from reporter to managing editor, he had burgled a Detroit home for a photograph, caught neuralgia at a Montreal theatre fire...