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...relations in every manner, shape or form" his royalty of $1,000 a month was discounted and he had been paid $90,000 in cash. He added "a new movement, not antagonistic to the Klan, was launched here [Jacksonville] yesterday by citizens of Florida and elsewhere, of a national scope, of which I have the honor to be the head...
King George nominated the members of a body to be known as the Commission of Fine Arts for England. This body, and the American Commission of Fine Arts (established by act of Congress in 1910), are almost identical in character and scope. Both are composed of non-political artists and amateurs who receive no recompense for their work; both are limited to the capacity of advisers who have no actual power. While the American Commission is confined to criticism of Federal projects in the District of Columbia, the British one is empowered to give advice to such provincial authorities...
...Nations idea. No one else is perhaps so willing to bear this honor which is coupled with so much political dislike. Hoover, Hughes and Root cannot take it, even if they would, because Republicans as a body are against it. Among Democrats, those with political possibilities of a national scope fear to don it completely. There are some ?John W. Davis, Carter Glass, Newton D. Baker?who would be willing, but who, for reasons chiefly political, would not perfectly fit. Ironically enough, some of them were "too close to Wil- son." Outside of politics there are Edward...
...given from about the middle of the 16th Century to the Protestants of France), so called because it began in Paris on St. Batholomew's Day, Aug. 24, 1572. It was planned by Catherine de' Medici, primarily as revenge upon Admiral Coligny, but later being broadened in scope so as to include the slaughter at one blow of all the Huguenot leaders, thus ruining the Protestant party in France. At length persuading the King that the massacre was a measure of public safety, she succeeded in wringing from him his consent, and on the fateful Sunday at daybreak...
...universe is estimated, at the maximum, to be 350,000 light years* in diameter. N. G. C., 6,822 is a million light years away (six quintillion miles) -the most distant object known. The cluster was first observed by the late Dr. E. E. Barnard, but his tele- scope was too weak to resolve it into stars...