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Last week, at a little service of dedication, Mrs. Anderson was handed the debt-free deed to a $19,000, grey-shingled, four-bedroom house and its lot. In the course of the afternoon, between 150 and 200 people dropped in to wish her well. Said she: "I regard it as a tribute to my husband, as a beautiful monument to his memory." Said St. Andrew's new pastor, Reuben Swanson: "It is an expression of the love of God in the hearts...
...until the deed was done did the shortcomings of the great experiment become clear. For all the tremendous good it had wrought, U.S. rule had recognized old Spanish land grants, many of them dubious, which gave a few favored families a stranglehold. Free trade with the U.S. had given the Philippines the bloom of apparent health, but it was a hectic flush: the islands were not prepared to stand on their own economic feet. The sugar kings and wealthy traders had prospered, but thousands of tenant farmers were left in discontented peonage. The seed of freedom had sprouted...
...before the Hill-house-West Haven High School champion game of 1947. A Hill house partisan, equipped with a liberal amount of red paint, daubed the walls of the Bowl with "Hillhouse" and "Beat West Haven." Yale's athletic director deplored the action, and said he thought that the deed had been done "by an irresponsible bunch of kids who were probably influenced by Harvard's painting in the Bowl last year...
...very likely the thieving steward of Glastonbury Abbey during the reign of Henry VIII. "The story goes," say the Opies, "that at the time of the Dissolution, the abbot ... sent his steward to [Henry VIII] with a Christmas gift: a pie in which were hidden the title deeds of twelve manors. On the journey, Jack Horner is said to have opened the pie and extracted the deed of the Manor of Mells . . . His descendants live there to this...
...they have been unable to see any prospects of bettering themselves socially or economically, have turned in sheer hopelessness to the . . . lawless alternatives left to them. Threatened by the monster they have created, the European citizens of the larger South African centers have seemingly still no conscience regarding their deed . . . If we do not destroy this monster and remove its cause, it will destroy...