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...Clyde Griffiths of the book and cinema was in actual life one Chester Gillette, and Roberta Alden was Miss Grace Brown. They had been keeping more or less clandestine company for some time before the episode and when they discovered their unfortunate plight a series of letters passed between them, these letters being mainly written by Miss Brown who implored Gillette to marry...
...reign of lusty King Henry VIII, England was in sorry plight. The State was pillaging the Church. The Enclosures had made weedy grazing land where once stood pleasant farms. Sir Thomas More cried out: "In England the sheep are eating...
...keep harping on the sad plight of our neighbor country...
...editors agreed last week that Hungary's financial plight, the closing of her banks at the time of the German crash, the government's emergency decrees to prevent the exporting of money, were the basis of Count Bethlen's troubles. Matters grew acute some weeks ago when Count Bethlen, faced by a growing opposition among the deputies, appointed, before Parliament adjourned, a committee of 33 to help him govern the country by decree...
...Church, contained an editorial which asked again for a $250,000 endowment, predicted the speedy demise of the publication unless its friends gave help. Last week's Living Church revealed the progress of the week's drive-$80 had been received. Editor Frederic Cook Morehouse blamed the plight of The Living Church on advertisers' preference for secular magazines of larger circulation, on increased costs of publication since the war, and on financial losses to Morehouse Publishing Co. (Milwaukee) which had previously been able to pay Living Church deficits out of profits from the sale of religious books...