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The immediate aftermath of Easter Week was the execution of 5 leaders, the sentencing of 75 revolters to penal servitude, the imprisonment of 23, the internment of 1,841. Later, in London, the best known of the Easter Week conspirators, Sir Roger Casement, died on the gallows, despite the pleas...
The late Rt. Rev. George Herbert Kinsolving, 6 ft. 4 in. and hefty, became Episcopal Bishop of Texas ("Texas George"). Reminded, after his election, of General Sherman's statement that "if he owned Hell and Texas, he would farm out Texas and live in Hell," Texas George replied: "Since...
Mad as a wet hen last week was the Christian Century. This most influential U. S. Protestant weekly had been mad the week before, and the week before that, and the week before that. What made it mad was thinking about one thing-President Roosevelt's Christmas appointment of...
11. Many Protestant churchmen were up in arms when President Roosevelt appointed as his "peace" ambassador to the Vatican:
According to a recent survey compiled for The Nation by Elmo Roper, over 63% of its readers are well-to-do, less than 37% belong to the underprivileged classes for whose sake it is edited. The average Nation reader is Jewish (46%) or Protestant (43½%), lives in the industrial...