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...Congress, Cabinet, Vice-Presidency, and Presidency are all cut and fitted to the mode of Washington. Only such trifling differences exist as that each Brazilian state is represented by three Senators instead of the Washingtonian two. All too few North American school children have been taught the historic words wherewith Brazil followed the U.S. into war with Germany. Cried President Wenceslao Braz to the Brazilian Congress: "With our elder brother the United States at war, it is impossible for Brazil to remain neutral...
...American Methods!" Such was the glamorous slogan wherewith Swindleress Hanau dazzled and duped tight-fisted rural Frenchmen and took away their francs...
...discovery and capture by police last week, of one Manuel Trejo y Morales, who gave Toral the pistol wherewith he slew Obregon, was widely rumored to open up a possibility that the Assassin will be retried in an effort to show that he and Trejo were the instruments of a general Roman Catholic plot against the life of General Obregon...
...Riverside and General Workers' Union, from its inception in 1887 until 1922. Latterly, as a Member of Parliament and lecturer, he has twice toured the Empire, and repeatedly visited the U. S. and Soviet Russia. The title of his favorite lecture, Christ and Labor! might be called the slogan wherewith hard-bitten "Ben" Tillett has sold himself to pious toilers' everywhere...
Such, in excerpt, are the authentic words wherewith a Christian may be thoroughly damned by the Roman Catholic Church. But not every Catholic who is excommunicated is damned so wholeheartedly. There are degrees. For example, M. Maurice Pujo, famed Managing Editor of the French Royalist newspaper L'Action Française (TIME, July 4, 1927 and Dec. 19), was permitted to be married at Paris last week, in the vestry of a Roman Catholic Church, although not long ago he was excommunicated (TIME, April...