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Died. William Robert ("Old Sawney") Webb, 84, educator, one-time (Jan.-March, 1913) U S Senator, "Tennessee's Most Beloved Citizen"; at Bell Buckle, Tenn.; of bronchitis and senility To his students (who included Norman H. Davis, able diplomat) he said each day: "Boys, don't do things on the sly." The origin of his pupil-invented sobriquet "Old Sawney" is uncertain...
Died. William Seward Webb, 75, railroad builder, (Wagner Palace Car Co., now the Pullman); at Shelburne...
Copper Consortium. Under the Webb-Pomerene act, which permits U. S. industries to cooperate against foreign trade competition provided no harm to domestic commerce results, Copper Exporters Inc. has been formed, with Cornelius F. Kelley (Anaconda Copper Mining Co.) as president. A "New York committee," representing 18 U. S. companies, will regulate trade practices and prices abroad. It will cooperate with a "Brussels committee," representing 15 foreign concerns, to act similarly for world copper trade...
...made to emphasize the omission from this title of the word "Protestant", which it is the high-roaders' ambition to have stricken from the official name of their Church. Milwaukee Presbyterians had placed one of their church buildings at the Episcopalians' disposal and here Bishop William Walter Webb of Milwaukee welcomed his brethren to the diocese in which "the first attempt at a religious order for men in the English Church after the Reformation was made"; the diocese which contains some of Anglo-Catholicism's earliest relics- the first stone altar, the first rood screen, a cloth...
...Bishop Webb revealed plans for another Congress in London next year, of which the subtitle was actually to be "The Holy Eucharist." Rev. George Craig Stewart of Evanston, Ill., chairman of the occasion, took his post and enunciated a seven-fold keynote, of which the most specific clause was: "To clarify the position of the Anglican Communion in respect to Protestant Christianity on the one hand and Roman Catholicism on the other...