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...Pope will never quit Rome," said the Temps, " if for no other reason than that Catholic dogma precludes it. The church is Catholic, Apostolic and Roman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Church and State | 7/30/1923 | See Source »

...that pictures him as a noisy apostle of poetical jazz. He explains his love for Egypt; his admiration for Poe; his forbears; his reason for going on the road, a new beggar-troubadour, trading his rhymes for bread: "I was told by the Babbits on every hand I must quit being an artist or beg. So I said: 'I will beg!' ... It was an act of spiritual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Collected Poems | 7/9/1923 | See Source »

...Herbert to Quit. Sir Herbert Samuel, British High Commissioner in Palestine, failed in his attempt to create a legislative council to represent the people of Palestine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Palestine | 7/2/1923 | See Source »

...when he resigned the offices of Lord Privy Seal, Leader of the House of Commons, Leader of the Unionist Party, Mr. Law has not enjoyed good health. Last October his condition improved to such an extent that he again stepped into the political arena, but was forced to quit his post last month owing to throat trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH EMPIRE: Bonar Law | 6/25/1923 | See Source »

...Preus, who quit the governorship of Minnesota to take the Senate seat left vacant by the death of Knute Nelson, will not be 40 until August. His colleague, Hendrik Shipstead, elected last Fall, is not yet 42. Politically the two have nothing in common. Shipstead, Farmer-Laborite, ranks as a "radical"; Preus is a conservative Republican...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Boy Senators | 5/19/1923 | See Source »

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