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...private trial he appointed Samuel Seabury, the referee of judiciary and police inquiry, which last week sent its first policeman to jail for perjury. When Mr. Grain learned whom his judge was to be he protested, pointing out that Referee Seabury was not only a well-known Tammany foe, but a member of the City Club; and that he had already publicly criticized the District Attorney's office...
Perhaps if peace had not been made with Chile, the Peruvian revolution (TIME, Sept. 1) would have not occurred. Officers of the Peruvian army, having for the first time in their lives no foreign foe to worry about, staged a coup and deposed President Augusto Bernardino Leguia, famed "Bantam Roosevelt of Peru...
...more sanctity than a minister (see col. 2). Among the apostolic churches, however, a man's consecration as bishop ranks him closer than the priests to God and much closer than the unhallowed members of the Church. Hence the men at Philadelphia - led by that persistent foe of Bishop William Thomas Manning, Dr. Alexander Griswold Cummins, editor of the Chronicle - in demanding the electoral recall of bishops dis pleasing to the priests and laymen who chose them, demand something that is uncanonical, almost heretical...
...report, ''His Majesty [Alfonso XIII], famed as 'the only man ever born a king,' has thus etc." (TIME, Jan. 19). Thus you ignore lamed oldster, the militant Zoroastrian Shapur II, onetime (310-379 A. D.) hard-boiled king of Persia. Potent foe of Christianity, he also slew Apostate Julian, drove the Romans from Mesopotamia, Armenia, cowed Jovian, died a king. Alfonso will need to step- FREDERICK B. Noss...
Then up spoke Senator Thomas James Walsh of Montana, a "power trust" foe, an old, wily and astute lawyer. Under its rules the Senate may reconsider a nomination provided the motion is made within two executive session days of its confirmation. Though 14 actual days had intervened since the Power Commissioners were confirmed. Senator Walsh set forth that whereas the Senate had been in recess over the holiday, therefore the two-day rule was still technically applicable. The minute Congress reassembled last week Senator Walsh offered his resolution "respectfully requesting" the President to return to the Senate the documents certifying...