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Says the Rev. Bonaventure Fitzgerald of the medal: "In these days of mental fog we need a spiritual beam to guide our blind flying, and certainly St. Joseph is this." Not only Roman Catholics use the medal. Episcopal Bishop William T. Manning of New York commends its "true and human appeal," and Actress Gertrude Lawrence has distributed hundreds of them...
...heads the Senate's what's-wrong-with-the-war-program committee, neatly mixed a pair of metaphors by saying it was high time for Don Nelson to "take the bull by the horns and cut off a few heads." Angry Mr. Truman was on the beam with the U.S. temper. But he had no solution for the raw-materials mess and no over-all explanation either...
Antidote to Weariness. Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell, commander of all U.S. forces in China, did not release all the details of their raids. But the Chinese at last had something to beam about. The Jap air force was staying on the ground-whether from fright or because its planes were busy elsewhere, no one knew. Therefore living habits in thousands of towns in southwest China could be, and were, changed. Stores and shops reopened...
...beam soon vanished. The Government as successor of G. P. McN. agreed to arbitration. At hearings in Chicago during May and June some amazing figures came out: under McNear's "day's work for a day's pay," T.P. & W.'s wage bill in April was $18,478. The Office of Defense Transportation figured out that under Brotherhood rules the bill would have been $56,711. Badly jolted by this noncooperative ODT attitude, the Brotherhoods finally said their wage bill would have been $31,000 (still 70% over McNear's figure). The Government-appointed arbitrator...
Many a Congregational church (see cuts) now contains stained glass, a rood beam, candles on the altar, other High Church trimmings that would have sent Cotton Mather on a witch hunt...