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...Long agitated by slavery, the Methodist Episcopal Church, meeting in New York in 1844, adopted a resolution prohibiting Bishop James Oswald Andrew, whose Southern wife was a slave-owner, from serving the Church as long as slaves were in his family. Indignant, Southern members withdrew, met at Louisville the next year, organized the Methodist Episcopal Church, South...
Early last year "The Greek" withdrew from the "Greek Syndicate." He said that he thought his heart was beginning to be affected by too much playing for high stakes. Today the Syndicate carries on under M. Zografos, the "other Greek," and M. Couloumidjian, a compatriot and relative of Armenian novelist "Michael Arlen" (Dikran Kuyumjian). Last week the physicians who attended Europe's prince of gamblers concealed the cause of Death, refused to say whether he had indeed died of "gambler's heart...
...made good copy for the cameramen, he signed one copy of the ratification document, started to hand it to Mr. Kellogg. Sidney Smith, State Department official, reached over, blotted the parchment, passed it to Mr. Kellogg. "Will you please keep out of the way?" said President Coolidge. Mr. Smith withdrew. Mr. Kellogg tried to sign, but his pen scratched. It was dry. The President passed him an inkwell. A second copy was signed. The treaty had been formally ratified...
...public's interests). The railroads soon recognized that such promiscuous buffeting was unprofitable. For one thing, the turmoil made their customers aware that not yet were all great corporations "good corporations," like Judge Gary's U. S. Steel Corp. So the railroad executives withdrew to secret confabulations and pacts...
Then Merry del Val withdrew into the relative obscurity to which he has clung ever since. One dearest labor of these last years has been in the hope of achieving the canonization of simple, faithful, saintly Pius...