Benedict Club: A Home Away From Home

...rst year about 200 men visited the club each day and by 1943 that was up to 800.[11] The women volunteers, called the Morale Corps, would organize various themes for the dances as well as staff the offices and service desks and serve food and refreshments. The military men described

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Cornelia Connelly, S.H.C.J.

...children: Mercer and Adeline. After forty-seven days at sea and a stop in southern France, the Connellys final reached Rome in February 1836. They quickly integrated into local society and were frequent visitors of the influential Borghese family and Englishman John Talbot, the 16th Earl of Shrewsbury, who became Pierce’s

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James Buchanan materials at the Archdiocesan Archives?

...ion should they think proper...I have every reason to believe that all the Southern States are decidedly friendly to my nomination. Indeed some of their leading men say, they will support no other Northern man. Page 1 Part of the second page reads: There is an element now actively at

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Jack Chick (1924-2016)

...Jack's company, Chick Publications, has been listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Chick Tracts Jack Chick's short pocket-sized cartoon tracts, called Chicklets, were designed to be passed on to others. These cartoons cover a wide range of topics, from basic Gospel stories to the dangers

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