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...Ministry of Labor, is the first woman to hold a ministerial post in Great Britain. She was a delegate in 1920 to the Russian Congress of Labor Unions, a labor adviser in the British delegation to the Washington labor conference, a delegate at several labor meetings in Geneva under the auspices of the League of Nations. Because of the shape of her head, she has been compared to a robin. Said Lady Astor: "'Maggie' Bondfield is worth twice some of the men in the Cabinet...
...inspired by rectitude and especially by charity." To the work of extending the usefulness of the Catholic press, a saint, has been given. He is St. Francis of Sales. In a recent encyclical, the Pope presented him as the Patron Saint of the Catholic Press. He was Bishop of Geneva, Switzerland, 1602-1622, in the days when the Calvinistic "heretics" had to be withstood. He was noted for the energy and zeal displayed in his missionary work in the province Chablais, a stronghold ot Calvinism. His practical advice to defenders of the Faith was given to the world...
...Should we not blush if the President of the International Red Cross at Geneva pleads in his address to all civilized countries urging collections for starving Germany 'that your generosity might act as example to the German rich and induce them to do their duty to their poor compatriots...
...Geneva is the world-center of Calvinism, so Princeton is the shrine of Presbyterianism in America. For a century the Princeton Theological Seminary has been the fountainhead of its theology. A stone's-throw from the campus stands the First Presbyterian Church, where the Presidents of Princeton have worshipped. Of late, one pew has been rented by the Rev. Professor van Dyke, and occupied by him except when he was away preaching. But last week Dr. van Dyke wrote this letter: Howard E. Eldridge, Treasurer...
...work for their enemy, were reported to be bringing a huge collective damage suit against the German Government. The trial starts on Jan. 7, at Paris, and will be heard by the Belgo-German Mixed Arbitration Tribunal under the presidency of Paul Moriaud, head of the law faculty of Geneva University...