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...millions of such little defeats, begotten by the great defeat, the mood of Germany today is compounded. The Germans gave the last ounce of their strength to follow men who proclaimed themselves their leaders. They find little strength within themselves now that these leaders are ignominiously dead & gone...
...Alexandria knew old St. Anthony by reputation, for he had worked miracles of solace among the martyrs there 30 years before. In the basilica he was given the place of honor, the archbishop's throne. When the service reached the new Nicene Creed (. . . "very God of very God, begotten not made, being of one substance with the Father, by whom all things were made. . .), an Arian heckler interrupted to protest. Old Anthony was puzzled. He did not understand the controversy very well, but he knew what he knew. Before a crowd tense with suppressed rationalism and electrified...
...absorbed by the Lilienthal case, budget and tax curs, and labor legislation, the Republican leadership with unusually little noise and difficulty has obtained all bit final Congressional approval for a constitutional amendment limit Presidential tenure. This piece of "must" legislation is another all-too-common example of hasty, vengeance-begotten acts which have already thrown the 80th Congress into a maze of political confusion on each of the three, mentioned spotlighted issues...
Stagesweeper Hustie Finley doubled on the flute last night as Eliot House opened its Christmas festivities with an uproarious rendition of Ben Johnson's "Bartholemew Fair." Messrs. Alcorn, Kilty, and Spencer, and "Esquire" Martin, who "looked begotten on a cart at harvest time," led a cast of 28 under the direction of Maestro Allegretti...
...Brown Bros., Harriman and Co., etc.) in March 1929, as a holding company for all branches of aviation. For a time it flew high, controlling 81 corporations. But soon it crashed into such a welter of squabbles, proxy fights and plain bad management that Wall Street quipped: "AVCO was begotten in sin and carried on in seduction." Not till 1937 did AVCO turn into an honest woman...