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...this emergency the 24-year-old Earl Marshal and Hereditary Marshal and Chief Butler of England took counsel with his Roman Catholic advisers and his devout mother, the Baroness Herries. His Grace was advised that he could invoke an Act of Parliament making it illegal to fly the ancient flag of Scotland. Promptly he invoked the said Act last week, then retired into his usual aristocratic silence...
...that he was President Wilson's First Assistant Postmaster General. He arrived in Washington as a Congressional secretary, demonstrated a rare talent with figures, helped draft the Underwood Tariff Act (1913). Earlier in South Carolina, he had served in the State Legislature where, although an ardent Dry and devout Methodist, he offered legislation creating the notorious South Carolina liquor dispensary system. Never since has he ceased to talk of the failure of that system...
Roger Ward Babson is a famed statis tician, predicter of the 1929 stock market crash, who has lately turned bullish. Resembling greatly a goateed New England preacher, he is a shrewd, pragmatic religionist, a devout member of the Congre gational & Christian Churches. He is chairman of its Commission on Church Attendance. Last week, in the September Federal Council Bulletin, he presented statistics gleaned thus far in a five-year survey on church going. Chief points: ¶In 1930 and 1931, some 33% of the total membership of 903 Congregational & Christian churches went to church every Sunday...
...Durham has stood alone for so many years. This legend is that the original "Bull" was offensive to the ladies of the Durham, N. C. Methodist Churches and through their Aid Societies they appealed to Mr. James Buchanan ["Buck"] Duke, the late benefactor of Duke University, and himself a devout Methodist, and Mr. Duke, like California Educational Director Edward Lloyd Lomax appeased the ladies by erecting a fence hiding the objections...
Humbler Venetians passed the U. S. building by, rushed to see what was on view this year in the German Gallery. Two years ago the German nudes exhibited were so very specific that Pietro Cardinal La Fontaine, Patriarch of Venice, forbade the devout to enter the unhallowed spot...