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...following summary of the platform wherever possible words and phrases are taken verbatim from the text; assertions are printed in ordinary roman type, promises in italics...
Albania (about the size of New Jersey plus Maryland) has been governed since 1920 by a Council of Regents (consisting of four representatives-all of whom have now fled to Italy-of the four popular religions: Bektashi Moslem, Sunni Moslem, Roman-Catholic, Greek Orthodox) and by a Diet of 99 members...
...endeavor to substitute "Christ's Holy Church" for "Holy Catholic Church" (in the creeds) failed. It was pointed out that if Catholic was commonly misunderstood "to mean only a Church filled with bigotry and intolerance," Methodists should take greater pains to make clear that "Catholic" does not mean "Roman...
...that no concentration of known rays could produce the force claimed, and that scientists do not anticipate the discovery of new rays that can. Dr. John H. Morecroft, of Columbia University, says that no scheme for using rays destructively has yet advanced beyond that of Archimedes, who burned the Roman galleys in the seige of Syracuse by sun mirrors in the third Century B. C. Dr. Alfred N. Goldsmith, of the College of the City of New York, says that there are but five types of rays dangerous to life: X-rays, radium rays, ultraviolet rays, ordinary heat rays...
...Majestic (White Star) : Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, President of the National Woman's Party; Georges Carpentier, "gorgeous orchid man," and his manager Francois Descamps; Gilbert Miller, head of Charles Frohman, Inc., who brought several new plays including The Roman Feast by Ferenc Molnar, author of The Swan, The High "C" by Ernest Vajda, author of Fata Morgana; Miss Teddy Gerard, vaudeville actress who has been in England for several years...