Men of Vision and the Becket Legend
The lecture at Prince George Winyah Church recounts Thomas Becket’s rise from London merchant father Gilbert Becket to Chancellor of England under Henry II. It covers his exile, clerical trials, and return amid popular support, highlighting the clash with royal authority and the drama surrounding Canterbury and church-state power.
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Dean Robottom
Prince George Winyah
Gilbert Becket
Thomas
London
Young Becket
Oxford
Theobald
Paris
England
Henry 2Nd
Europe
Ald
Henry
Becket
Thomas Becket
Canterberry
Clarendon
Henry Caims
Ately
McNamara brothers sentenced after guilty pleas in LA case
James B. McNamara and John J. McNamara faced sentences set by Judge Walter Bordwell after pleading guilty to the Los Angeles Times bombing and Llewellyn Iron Works dynamiting. DA sought clemency with life for James B. and 14 to 20 years for John J. Officials hope both provide further testimony to a broad dynamiting conspiracy.
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Los Angeles
James B. McNamara
John J. McNamara
Walter Bordwell
Los Angeles Times
Llewellyn Iron Works
Bride Intervenes as Col Emerson Fends Off Threat
Georgetown South Carolina December 3 Mrs Emerson the colonel s second wife leapt between him and what appeared to be a deadly danger after he dismissed Arcadia s superintendent James Baker Col Emerson explained the dismissal due to incompetence Baker drew a weapon but Mrs Emerson cried not to and the quarrel was settled with Baker apologizing according to the New York World
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Georgetown
S. C
Isaac E. Emerson
Col. Emerson
McCormick
F. C. Ewing
Baltimore
Arcadia
James Baker
Baker
Mrs. Emerson
New York World
Fragmentary Opinion on Maine Explosion and Taft Speech
The passage claims Maine was blown up from the outside and asserts victory in retribution. It mocks a Taft adviser and references Lord Grey resolving a dispute with a peculiar speech described as half plum pudding and half pretzels.
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Maine
Taft
Lord Grey
England
Germany
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Men of Vision
McNamara
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John J
Georgetown Drug Co
Georgetown, S.C
Col. Emerson’s
Husband
A. M. Schneider
Mgr
Hiose
Palmer’s Fruit Store
W. H. Palmer
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