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...little steamer Patricia. Not as a Prime Minister but as an Elder Brother of Trinity House, he wore a uniform very much like that of a British admiral. Trinity House is the ancient organization still responsible for British lighthouses and pilotage. At all royal naval reviews the Elder Brethren's yacht has the right to pilot the royal yacht down the line...
Dunkards, On the big Adam Blocher farm near Delphi, Ind. met 4,000 Dunkards, or Old Order German Baptist Brethren, in the 195th general meeting since their creedless, non-liturgical church was founded in eastern Pennsylvania in 1742. The women wore black bonnets, plain dresses, the men long beards and soup-bowl haircuts. Unabashedly, men obeyed St. Paul's admonition to "greet one another with a holy kiss." Only problem of import before the Dunkards last week was whether or not to allow radios in their homes, a matter which has come up every year since 1925. Though liberal...
...under British rule who are not eager to shake it off, and the same is true of the Italians and the French. Mark my words, Allah may forgive a Moslem for not praying, but Allah never forgives a Moslem who does not strive to free his brethren from non-Moslem domination...
...town's leading banker to investigate local church finances. Last week, while other Oklahomans were debating whether Judas hanged himself on a redbud tree, Oilman Phillips quietly sent checks totaling $63,000 to the First Methodist Church, the First Presbyterian Church, the First Baptist Church, the United Brethren Church and St. Luke's Episcopal Church...
...Chicago circuit court. Last week, when the case went to the jury, no Chicago daily, no Chicago news service had carried a line about it. Reason: defendant was the Chicago Tribune ("World's Greatest Newspaper") and publishers usually do not play up the libel difficulties of their brethren.* What made the Tribune's trouble all the more remarkable were the character and quality of its accuser, Harrison McGowen Parker, who in his high- flying career has been business manager of the Tribune, publisher of the Chicago American...