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Second, both candidates agree on the need for strict, modern accounting of city expenses...
Rome, in finding for the Church, sustained the "broad" interpretation of the Act set forth in Lewis' recommendations. Residents of the area near Sparks and Brattle Sts., where the Church had planned to build 22 feet above the 35-foot limit, had hoped for a strict reading of the law, leaving Cambridge the right to limit, physical proportions of the buildings...
Their leader, "Mother Ann" Lee, reached the colonies from England in 1774, with her own mystical version of the Protestant faith. Mother Ann insisted on strict communal life, with all property held in common, equality of the sexes combined with absolute celibacy, and simplicity and directness in all things. "Be hand-minded," she would urge. "Put your hands to work and your hearts to God." Soon there were 19 self-contained communities scattered through New England, New York, Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana. Every Shaker practiced a craft with particular diligence, producing everything except babies. They have now almost died...
Although the Ivy League is quite strict in forbidding spring football practice, the Eastern League--composed of the Ivy teams plus Army and Navy--has no regulations governing early practice, according to Shepard...
Died. James Mcllhany Thomson, 81, longtime publisher-owner (1906-41) of the New Orleans Item, now States & Item, the South's oldest evening daily newspaper, who lambasted the Louisiana tyranny of Huey Long, supported Al Smith for President in 1924, later (1956) became a strict states'-righter; of a heart attack; in Gaylord...