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...confessions. Loot* to the value of $5,000 was recovered, gathered into a large room, and inspected by the evangelist before he left Elmira. The Evangelist. Reverend William A. Sunday is the last of many evangelists whose names have become "household" with the American public. Whitefield (who nearly converted Benjamin Franklin to Evangelical Christianity), Chalmers, Moody, Drummond, were among the best known men of their times. And ten years ago, Billy Sunday, on a lower intellectual plane, was known wherever U. S. vices flourished. His "cleanups" of New York, Chicago, San Francisco, followed in quick succession. Every drawing-room debated...
...United Hotels Corporation, in addition to 18 running hotels (including the new Roosevelt in New York), has five more under construction; viz, the Benjamin Franklin at Philadelphia; the Olympic at Seattle; the Alexander Hamilton at Paterson, N. J.; the Admiral Beatty at St. Johns, Nova Scotia; the Niagara at Niagara Falls...
...GROWTH OF THE LAW-Benjamin N. Cardozo, LL.D.-Yale University Press ($1.75), must be regarded as a supplement to The Nature of the Judicial Process (1921) by the same author. Both volumes represent lectures given at the Yale Law School. The Scope. The text with which Judge Cardozo begins and ends The Growth of the Law is: "Law must be stable and yet it cannot stand still." An understanding of this text, he points out, requires a thorough consideration of "the philosophy of function" in relation to "the authority of precedent." The chapter headings give the best brief idea...
...Author. Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, aged 54, was born in Manhattan., studied at Columbia University, was admitted to the New York State Bar, was elected (in 1913) to the New York State Supreme Court and (in 1917) an Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals. He is noted for the thoughtful content and stylistic charm of his opinions...
Engineering added a temporary milestone to its faith when one Benjamin B. Odell, a former Governor of New York, drove a rivet. He completed the longest single span in the world. The great span, borne on 18-inch cables, is 1,623 ft. long, and dangles 155 ft. over the Hudson River about six miles north of Peekskill, between Anthony's Nose and Bear Mountain. With its approaches, it cost $6,000,000 and will be open after January as a toll bridge. Except for the railway bridge at Poughkeepsie, it is the only vehicular bridge across the Hudson...