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Upon the Richards Flying Field, near Kansas City, a puppydog appeared, seeking friends. Some pilots did not reject his overtures, but one, taking a dislike to his shy looks and gentle manners, took him away in an automobile, deserted him on a lonely highroad. The puppy made his way back. Finding that the beast survived even his own natural inclination to sniff at whirling propellers and perform in the path of descending planes, this flyer, one Waldo Robey, pilot of the Porterfield Flying School, took him 800 feet up in a plane, dropped him overboard. The diminutive body, smashed...
While Baptists from 18 states, representing some 3,000,000 coreligionists (Southern Baptist Convention at Houston, Tex.), called beer and light wines the "inveterate enemies of the human race"; proclaimed unswerving loyalty to the 18th Amendment and hostility to any changes in the Volstead Act; resolved to reject "every theory, evolution or otherwise," which teaches that man is not the "especial creation...
...Kellogg note would appear to make it necessary for the 48 Court-adherent nations to seek individually for the answers to these questions; to accept or reject individually the U. S. reservations...
...bishops in effect to mind their business:. "They [U. S. business, educational and religious interests in Turkey] combine in asking that the treaty be ratified. They feel it necessary for their protection. . . . The leading powers have all concluded, treaties with Turkey. ... To refuse friendly relations with all peoples who reject Christianity is not only unthinkable as a practical course for the Government to pursue, but I had always supposed that the great object of Christianity in international affairs was to establish friendly relations, not only with other Christian nations, but with the anti-Christian nations, that they might, be brought...