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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even though war did not seem inevitable in July, the board of strategy was realistic: it said nothing about calling a peace conference. Wrote Dr. Palmer (before the war began) : "Recommending a peace conference was like advocating the wisdom of insurance in the midst of a city-wide conflagration." The board surveyed the background of the world's disorders, presented some political and economic principles based upon its belief that "the Church Universal ... is not a mere idea but a reality, transcending the nations. It is created by the will of God, not by the will...
Most startling chapter in Dr. Butler's autobiography is "On Keeping Out of Public Office." "The pressure upon me to accept public office," says he, "began early and has been unremitting all these years." Offices he says he has turned down: New Jersey legislator, U. S. Representative and Senator, U. S. Commissioner of Education, U. S. Ambassador to London or Berlin, U. S. Secretary of State (offered by President Harding), New York City's Mayor, New York's Governor. But Republican politicians have long known there was one office Nicholas Murray Butler coveted. Biggest Butler boom...
Having adopted pedagogy as a career, Dr. Butler made politics his avocation. Speaking of his "lifelong struggle against the evils of the saloon," he says: "This began while a freshman in college." His autobiography dwells most fondly on his behind-the-scenes activities. He relates the inside story of 14 national Republican Conventions, where he sat in on many a smoke-filled hotel-room confab, with such politicians as Pennsylvania's Boies Penrose and the late President Warren G. Harding. Politician Butler's chief usefulness was as a kind of glorified errand boy who carried messages between...
...activities." In the first grade he taught his pupils "The Fatherhood of God" by discussing with them their own families and homes, getting them to build a house, reconstruct Bethlehem and Nazareth (complete with water and sewage systems), erect an altar with Quaker Oats boxes and paper. He also began to teach his first-graders to talk Latin...
This week, as his school began its fifth year and study of the Ten Commandments (approached through study of U. S. laws), Dr. Johnson had some 150 pupils and was busy answering questions from interested Catholic educators. Hoping that his school would be a model for U. S. Catholic schools. Dr. Johnson reminded them that St. Paul had exhorted the Ephesians to learn "by doing." that Pope Pius XI had urged the Catholic priesthood to be "healthily modern...