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...famine winter of 1921-22 the A. R. A. fed some 10,000,000 Russians, other foreign relief agencies fed 2,000,000 and the Soviet Relief Administration (S. R. A.) fed 12,000,000. On July 6, 1923 the quiet work of Comrade Stalin as Minister of Nationalities bore fruit when the Constitution of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics (U. S. S. R.) was promulgated at Moscow. Couched in terms of uniting voluntarily almost one-seventh of the world under one flag, the Constitution omits mention of the Communist Party which in fact masters and rules Russia...
Anna Mathilda McNeill, born in Wilmington, N. C. 128 years ago, was a very prim and formidable lady, proud of her relationship to the McNeills of Barra, the Fairfaxes of Virginia. She married a U. S. Army engineer, bore him four sons, went with him to Russia in 1843 to build a railroad in that country: between Moscow and St. Petersburg. She held family prayers every morning, kept the Sabbath with awful rigidity and insisted on serving roast turkey and pumpkin pie on the banks of the Neva. But she would not be of the slightest interest...
...Marines finished off the shambles the militia left. During his trial and in the days he waited for the scaffold, old John Brown was at his fanatical best. Few who saw him then thought him insane; even his jailer felt sympathy for him, admired him for the way he bore himself. To a Methodist preacher, a slavery-believer who came to see him, old John Brown said: "My dear sir, you know nothing about Christianity; you will have to learn its A, B and C. I respect you as a gentleman, of course, but as a heathen gentleman." The Virginians...
Born: Winchester, Ind., Nov. 2, 1864. Career: Son of a country lawyer, he was educated at DePauw University where he played baseball, got his A.B. in 1886. Admitted to the Indiana bar next year, he began practice with his father. In 1892 he married Flora Miller who bore him three sons, one daughter. He removed to Rushville (pop. 5,709) in 1893 where he has made his home ever since. He joined the Elks, made lodge speeches and friends, drifted into politics. In 1894 he was first elected to the House of Representatives where with one interruption he served...
Fitz, playing in Gibb's place in the Harvard Freshman backfield, bore the brunt of the ball carrying in the third period until his fumble deep in the Worcester territory cost him his prestige...