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Among those who have preached in chapel have been: Reverend H. S. Coffin, Reverend C. L. Slatter, Reverend W. H. Sedgewick, Reverend. J. F. Newton, Reverend F. M. Eliot, Reverend T. G. Soares, Reverend C. R. Brown, Dean W. L. Sperry, Reverend H. K. Sherrill, Reverend A. W. Vernon, Reverend C. H. Park, Reverend H. E. Foadick Raymond Calkins, Heverend J. H. Lathrop, Professor E. C. Moore, Reverend J. C. Perkions, Reverend N. B. Nash, Reverend H. B. Washburn, Reverend H. H. Tweedy, Reverend A. MacColl, Reverend Karl Reiland, Reverend T. H. Davies, Reverend J. T. Dallas. Those scheduled...
...engulfed the caucus room where some Congressmen were about to hold a hearing on a bill. Neither anarchists nor Anti-Salooners, these lobbyists were white-collar workers in the Government?meek, long-suffering driven to desperation (they said) by "genteel poverty " They told stories of death by starvation, of "coffin and graveyard clubs, of collections for funerals?by-products of life on $1,200 per year. The House Civil Service Committee, to which they protestified was considering, among other pay raises the establishment of $1,500 as a minimum wage for any Federal fulltime job This increase the marchers favored...
...Every additional dollar of American investment there is an additional nail in the coffin of our independence," he wrote. ". . . What frightens me as a Filipino is the knowledge that those American 'captains of industry' who have millions invested in the Philippines are also heavy contributors to the campaign chest of the Republican Party. In the name of God, Members of the American Congress, I beseech you to give us our independence before the Philippines, like the 'Teapot Dome' and the naval oil lands, are donated to campaign contributors whose mouths are watering for our golden natural...
...World War. Upon that carriage had later lain the body of the British "Unknown Soldier" as it was borne to rest beneath the white Cenotaph in Whitehall. Last week the unique gun carriage bore not the unknown but the best known British soldier. On the flag which draped the coffin lay Earl Haig's sword, unsheathed, and beside it his Field Marshal's baton and massive white plumed...
...less than 1,000,000 Britons gazed reverently, last week, as it wound through three and a half miles of London streets. When the principal service began at Westminster Abbey millions more heard over the radio Earl Haig's favorite hymn, Onward, Christian Soldiers. To convey the coffin within the abbey came as most august pall bearers, Field Marshal Ferdinand Foch, Field...