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...long. The islands were discovered in the 15th Century by one Juan Bermudez, a Spaniard who had the misfortune to be wrecked there with a cargo of hogs. Most of Bermuda's earliest visitations were forcible. In 1609 Sir George Somers was shipwrecked there, established the first permanent settlement and gave the little archipelago its alternate name of Somers Islands. The town of St. George, first capital of Bermuda, is named not for Britain's patron saint but for Sir George Somers. In 1612 the islands were granted by charter to an offshoot of the Virginia Company. William...
Gabriel Sash was a stony acorn who planted himself in Kentucky soil in 1769. He was a hunter, and by way of being a desperate character. Living in a settlement drove him nigh crazy, and when he had stood the confinement of married life six months, he lit out for the woods and never came back. But he left behind him the beginnings of the Sash family. His only-son, James, was a mild-tempered man, who spent most of his life fighting the Indians, French, English. After the wars were over, he married a beautiful nun and settled down...
Tree. Flying the mail between Salt Lake City and Pasco, Wash., for Varney Air Lines, Pilot Jack O'Brien passes over a tiny settlement in the treeless desert near the Idaho-Utah boundary. Always a group of children and their teacher run out from the schoolhouse to wave at their "friend"; always Pilot O'Brien waggles his wings in salute. Last week, to the joy and amazement of the youngsters, Pilot O'Brien circled the schoolhouse at low altitude, dropped a tree, flew on. Looking back, he could see the children seize it, drag it toward...
...Pope Pius XI he very soon appropriated large sums to the Congregation for the Propagation of Faith (missionary propaganda) and spurred it to its work among the peoples. He, his Secretary of State, his legates and his nuncios dealt with rulers. His outstanding work in this respect was his settlement of the Roman Question by the Lateran Treaties of 1929, and the establishment of Vatican City as an independent sovereignty...
...face of the court actions, Colonel Lea again demonstrated himself a fast thinker. To spar for time he moved to transfer the suits from chancery to Federal court. Then he "permitted" friendly receiverships against the individual papers, Memphis Appeals and Knoxville Journal, pending settlement of the action against their holding company. The receivers included executives of the papers...