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...correct that the first issue of the Congressional Medal of Honor was to the Andrew raiders, for service in April 1862 (TIME, Me 18). But Surgeon Bernard J. D. Irwin received one in January 1864 for a deed done in February 1861. Therefore, he was the first, as to date of action...
Among certain pious and ingrained orthodox Jews exists a belief that rabbis, closer to God than ordinary people, may obtain spiritual benefits on behalf of the sick or the troubled. Such Jews also believe that benefit may be derived from performing a good deed or mitzvah, such as giving money to charity. In Brooklyn, N. Y. last week one Anna Seigel went to the police with a story of how she had paid $200 as a mitzvah for her paralyzed daughter and was now wondering if she had been swindled. Upon investigation of Mrs. Seigel's complaint the Brooklyn...
...friends dead, sets out for the Eastern Front. An epilog shows Bertin in 1919 going to call on the Kroysing parents, to tell them "how their sons had died, and in how pitiful and futile a fashion; they must be made to understand that it was no deed of heroism or sacrifice, that had robbed them of two young men who would have comforted them in their old age; it was an act of villainy, and a stroke of chance." But when he sees the old couple in their garden he understands that illusion is all that is left them...
...cars which teetered on the broken bridge was a group of politicians including Colonel Eduardo Hernandez Chazaro, candidate for Governor of Veracruz. He had no doubt that his own enemies had done the bombing. Convinced that the "intellectual author" of the deed was onetime Dictator Plutarco Elias Calles, ousted from his country last week (see p. 25), President Lazaro Cardenas ordered an investigation to ferret out the actual perpetrators...
...Chicago last week the Conference of Methodist Laymen chalked up its first substantial victory since it organized last summer to combat "radicalism" in the churches (TIME, Sept. 23). Though it refrained from publicly taking credit for the deed, the Conference had succeeded in easing a Methodist minister named Rev Dr. Archey D. Ball out of the pulpit he had held for four years in First Church Englewood...