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...amounted to sole recognition of the union. Leader Lewis himself, although he made no such claim, also beat the victory drum: "You changed your minds, and so the great Alfred Sloan changed his mind also. And then Myron Taylor, of U. S. Steel, changed his mind. And, lo and behold, it came to pass that finally our good friend Walter Chrysler also changed his mind. He had never changed his mind before, and it took a month this time. But he finally did it, and I know it, because I was there and saw him put his John Hancock...
...Conant scheme for studying history in one's spare time has breathed fire and fury into history for history's sake. Puttering about the uttermost parts of the University last week-end we stumbled on a scene that made our heart leap up to behold the prophetic power of the President's plan. For in one of the scientific research labs on the other side of the River--the kind of place one never goes to but which makes the University famous--we took part in a tingling drama in American historical development...
Shortly after dawn on Sunday in Manila, 500,000 Catholics on the Luneta attended mass, celebrated by Legate Dougherty who appeared as a choir sang Ecce Sacerdos Magnus (Behold the Great Priest), In the afternoon, soldiers, prelates, priests, government officials, members of the Philippines National Assembly and men, women and children formed in a long liturgical procession which took five hours to wind up on the Luneta, where Cardinal Dougherty held aloft a Sacred Host in Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. To these joyful Catholics then came, through loudspeakers, the voice of the Holy Father. On his divan...
...oratory is unimpassioned, but his command of the President's English is beautiful to behold...
...famed Christian Science Monitor (daily) advanced from 129,000 to 146,000, a new high. Indebtedness for remodeling the old Christian Science Publishing House as an administration building was paid off. Debt-free remained the new, massy $4,500,000 Publishing House, to which journeyed 120,000 visitors to behold its Mapparium containing the world's largest globe (TIME, June 17, 1935). Finally, the meeting learned that "the developments of this hour in world history are not disheartening to the thinker in Christian Science. These developments corroborate and fulfill our Leader's prophecy (Miscellany...