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Returning (in 1926), the Ambassador ran into a series of complications. There was the incident of the suspected Bolshevist influence in the Mexican Government. There was the war between the Calles Administration and the Roman Catholic Church. Later there were the documents stolen from the U. S. Department of State and discovered in the custody of the Mexican Government. These documents were particularly annoying inasmuch as they contained many unpleasant reflections on the Mexican Government, but their most sensational passages were later found to be forgeries, interpolated by the same knavish hand which first had stolen them...
...Francisco [Presbyterian] General Assembly. Many saw, for the first time, the superb location and great opportunity of Westminster, the only Christian College in five States." (The italics are TIME'S.) Denominational colleges, other than Latter Day Saints and Roman Catholic, in Utah and the five contiguous states are-Methodist: Gooding (Gooding, Idaho), University of Denver and Iliff School of Theology (Denver) ; Presbyterian: Idaho (Caldwell, Idaho), Westminster (Salt Lake City) ; Nazarene: Northwestern Nazarene (Nampa, Idaho) ; Congregational: Colorado (Colorado Springs, Colo.); Pillar of Fire: 'Westminster (Denver...
...attended Groton School; taught in Bronson Alcott's school; became a feminist, Transcendentalist, brilliant conversationalist and essayist; reviewed books of Carlyle, Browning, Tennyson, Longfellow, Poe, Lowell, et al., for the New York Tribune under Horace Greeley; was feted in England; married a dashing Italian; experienced and chronicled the Roman Revolution. Returning home, aged 40, she was shipwrecked and drowned off Fire Island...
Socially well-posted U. S. Negroes know that at Rome resides the most ancient and patrician aristocracy in Europe. Prince Massimo of Rome is an undisputed descendant of the Roman General Quintus Fabius Maximus, "The Delayer" (Third Century B. C.). The family of the late Prince Scipione Borghesi is both Royal and Papal. There are, in fact, dozens, scores, hundreds of Italian noblemen whole titles are genuine and venerable beyond reproach. Therefore, it was not surprising that in Paris last week, famed Negress Black Bottom, and Charleston performer Miss Josephine Baker, once of Harlem, now mistress of a Montmartre night...
...Roman punishments: "The Romans have a unique way of punishing some of their criminals. They tie them down on their back in the sun and then cover the victim's face with a thick layer of molasses for the flies to feast upon. . . . They whip [matricides] in public, and then they sew them up in a bull's hide together with a dog, a cock and a monkey, and throw them into the Tiber...