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...night in anno fifty...
Most scholars have concluded that Christ was born late in the year 5 B. C. or the 749th Year of Rome (Anno Urbis Conditae). He could not have been born later because Herod, who sought to have Him slaughtered along with the rest of the Jewish younglings, died the year following. For centuries after Christ's death no one thought to use Anno Domini as the base of a calendar. When the 6th Century monk Dionysius Exiguus finally did so, he made a miscalculation of four to six years which has not yet been rectified...
Last week Anno Domini 1929 turned in its well-interred grave. The anti-trust laws in decades past have dispersed great corporations: Standard Oil, the tobacco trust, the sugar trust. But the anti-trust laws never stopped men from taking the advice given by every U. S. dollar: e pluribus enum. The mergers of 1929 carried that advice to extremes if not to absurdity. The ghost of 1929 had last week the grim task of watching 1933 prepare to do what the anti-trust laws had never done, and saw one of the gigantic corporations which 1929 had created...
When His Holiness Pope Pius XI issued last May his Labor Encyclical, Quadragesimo Anno (TIME, June 1), he was reasoning and pronouncing for 331,500,000 Roman Catholics throughout the world. To do approximately the same thing for 22,000,000 U. S. Protestants, there exists the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America. It has no way of making its pronouncements authoritative ; but it may and does annually issue a Labor Sunday message to be read in churches throughout the land. Stronger than many a previous one was last week...
When Strachey quotes, his are not like other historians' appeals to original sources: "Anno 1670, not far from Cirencester, was an Apparition; Being demanded, whether a good Spirit, or a bad? Returned no answer, but disappeared with a curious Perfume and most melodious Twang." Strachey's apophthegmatic irony is reminiscent of the 18th Century (which he calls "that most balmy time"): "To confess is the desire of many; but it is within the power of few." "In Latin countries-the fact is significant-morals and manners are expressed by the same word; in England...