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Episcopalians. Except for its close linkage to the English Government, the Church of England's organization is practically that of the Protestant Episcopalian Church in the U. S., and the Episcopalian churches of Scotland, Wales, Ireland and other areas of the British Commonwealth. The hierarchy of those churches is composed of deacons, priests and bishops. The bishops govern. No ecclesiastical authority is above them, except where, as in England there are archbishops. The archbishops, however, act somewhat as do chairmen of corporate boards of directors. They lack inherent power of command. (In the Roman Catholic Church the Government...
...have been allowed to retain Vilna for seven years without an investigation by the League or interference by any of the powers shows that all is not well. It has its roots in the same condition that is responsible for anti-Semitic riots in Hungary, Gaelic street-signs in Ireland, and the utterances of the Mayor of Chicago...
...which he relinquished in 1918 to become one of the most popular Ambassadors to France that Britain has ever had. And in 1920, "tired of the limelight," he resigned. Urged to become Secretary for War once again, he refused and, instead, put on horn-rimmed spectacles and went to Ireland as Mr. Edwards...
...teeth of the Irish rocks; all night long the clouds, like vague white tigers, galloped across wild hills. The next morning, under a bright sun and a wind still swift, the storm's damage was revealed. Sweeping westward through England, it had demolished houses in Lancashire; in Ireland cables had been broken, trees torn up, the grandstand at the Tramore racetrack shattered; there had been a flood at Limerick. Over the west coast airplanes hunted for signs of wreckage or the bodies of the 50 fishermen of Killala, Cleggan Bay, Inishkea. The sea, as if offering an ironic apology...
...Carnegie United Kingdom Trust. That institution (endowment £2,000,000) is the analog of the Carnegie Trust Corp. of New York (endowment $125,000,000). Its purpose, Carnegie ordered, was "for the improvement of the well-being of the masses of the people of Great Britain and Ireland by such means as are comprehended within the meaning of the word charitable." Under the Earl of Elgin and Kincardine the trust has supported child welfare and rural development work, and built libraries...