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There is no position in the world comparable to that held by His Grace the Archbishop of York. He is high, he can go no higher, no one is above him, and. yet he is not the highest. He bears the title "Primate of England," but he is not the head of the English Church. That post is held by His Grace of Canterbury, whose title is "Primate of all England." Between the two Archbishops a traditional feud exists. Sometimes, as in the days of St. Thomas Becket, 800 years ago, it is bitter, even bloody. Usually the feud...
...Grace's voice go out unto the uttermost parts of the Empire...
Died. Mrs. Charles W. Eliot (Grace Mellen Hopkinson), 77, second wife of the President Emeritus; at Northeast Harbor, Me., after some years illness caused by heart disease...
...complain of the character of this consignment, although I notice that you do not guarantee delivery. The price you put on them, however ... is entirely too high. You offer me a chance to be the Democratic nominee for the Presidency, which carries with it, in this year of grace, more than a fair prospect of becoming President of the United States. In exchange, I am to abandon forthwith and immediately a law practice which is both pleasant and, within modest bounds, profitable, to throw over honorable clients who offer me honest employment, and to desert a group of professional colleagues...
...Manhattan, ten University of Michigan undergraduates strode up a Grace Line gangplank, bound for Lima, Lake Titicaca, Cuzco, La Paz, Iquique, Antofagasta. Bidden guests of most of the South American Republics, the ten were escorted by two members of their alma mater's Romance Language staff. They bore with them to South American universities the good-will of Marion L. Burton, Michigan's Coolidge-nominating President. In addition to conditions social, economic, political, religious, which it is their intent to scrutinize, the Michiganders may see a being who has long excited the curiosity of the American advertisement-reading...