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...Christmas address to his College of Cardinals, His Holiness Pope Pius XI hurled from Vatican City a potent reaffirmation of his 1931 Encyclical against sterilization: "That pernicious practice must be condemned. . . . Men are begotten not for earth and time but for heaven and eternity. . . . Public magistrates have no direct power over the bodies of their subjects. . . [to] tamper with the integrity of the body, either for reasons of eugenics or for any other reason...
...July 31 closing levels, floundered ineffectually. September wheat meandered between a top of $1.02 and the stated minimum, 92⅛?. September corn wandered between 57? and its stated minimum, 49⅜?. September pig bellies swelled up occasionally to $7 but flopped back on their minimum, $6.50. From similar listlessness, begotten partly by regulation, Manhattan's Stock Exchange was saved by outside stimulants. Following pricking of the speculative bubble three weeks ago, the Senate's busy Prosecutor Ferdinand Pecora called on Exchange President Whitney, told him speculation must be curbed. Last week the Exchange announced two new rules...
...least been speculative-buying ahead to forestall expected price rises when rapidly maturing industrial codes go into effect. In automobiles, contrariwise, dealers have piled up no stocks. Production of automobiles has not increased faster than cars actually have been bought by the public. The automobile boom has been begotten wholly by consumption, need not be discounted as partly speculative. To prove that the automobile boom is real and not rash, General Motors reported its shipments of cars abroad 45% greater than in the first six months of 1932, its shipments for June 127% greater than in June a year...
Whisked away to the Royal Palace, happy Mr. Hsieh disappeared behind its frowning moat and was solemnly conducted to awesome Phoenix Hall. Being incombustible, or at least always able to rise from its own ashes, the mythical phoenix is the fiery symbol of Japan's sun-begotten reigning house. Last week when the Son of Heaven actually appeared, Hsieh Kai-shih seemed so flabbergasted by the honor done him that Japanese courtiers had to nudge him at the right moments as he made his speech of thanks for recognition of Manchukuo, then received the dazzling Order of Merit, Grand...
...stepped upon Canadian soil Lord Bessborough struck the note that must and will be sounded again & again during the Imperial Economic Conference. "I feel," said His Excellency, "that our interests are being more closely linked day by day." This sentiment may surmount Irish hatred, Indian passive resistance and Dutch-begotten South African suspicion of the Mother Country...