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...SCIENCE). He has come to be known affectionately as "California's Grand Old Man" for his kindliness, his humanity, his love of children. He has a personal creed of welldoing and a God who is one to love and not to fear. Further, he has a hearty, outspoken, incisive contempt for many religious creeds and dogmas, especially the theory of predestination...
Recently some reporters snapped at this unhidden contempt and made a "newspaper story" of it. And as a result busy, aged Luther Burbank was last week obliged to hire seven additional secretaries to answer with natural courtesy the thousands upon thousands of letters relating to his religious views. A few days later, in a good, substantial California rainstorm, in the face of his wife's restraining pleadings, he motored from his Santa Rosa home, hitting water two feet deep, to San Francisco in order to read an exposition of his views to the congregation of the First Congregational Church...
...thing will stir first the Creightons' pity and then contempt Constitution) and near the Cathedral. In fact one sees them at the very doors of the Cathedral whining for alms, and shrewdly searching through their rheumy eyes the charitable potentialities of the stranger. At the Cathedral, too, the stranger from the U.S. will note the peculiar fashion in which the natives, who are mostly Roman Catholics, cross themselves. They make the regular gestures of the cross, then tap the nape of the neck...
...suppose the ? ? would make the correction? Not on your life. Therefore I have a perfect contempt for that periodical. Will you please publish this letter in order to convey to the gentleman from Iowa and thousands of other readers the information that the has misinformed them; furthermore that it is a coward in not correcting its mistake...
...provisions of the decree or knowingly intended that its provisions should be disregarded with a view to suppressing competition in the aluminum industry." But he pointed out that what the Trade Commission had gathered went only to the year 1922. Under the law, to prosecute the company for contempt of Court in violating the decree, it was necessary to begin action within a year of the time the alleged offense was committed. The Attorney General announced that he would start an investigation to find evidence of violations of the decree which were less than a year...