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Cook County, which includes Chicago, has no great reputation for piety. But the Chicago Bible Society is not to blame. Last year in Cook County the Society distributed 530,897 Bibles-whole and in parts. Last week, in the Chicago Temple (which occupies the first three floors of a 21-story Loop skyscraper), the Society celebrated its 100th birthday with a rousing service. Keynoter was its chipper, peppery mainspring and secretary, the Rev. Jesse Lee McLaughlin...
...from the South have contributed a great deal. President Roosevelt has called the South "the nation's No. 1 economic problem," but Harvard has learned from its Southern guests that many of the South's problems are also the nation's, and that it does not help matters to blame all evils in the South on the South. In this way the Nieman Foundation has proved an unexpected contributor to President Conant's plan to make Harvard a national institution...
...about Original Sin from these questions & answers in the "Penny" or "Baltimore" catechism, first published in 1885. From them they might infer that Eve was at least as guilty as her spouse. But this is not good Roman Catholic doctrine: Adam, as father of the human race, bore the blame for Original Sin; Eve, only for her own sin. Last week, at a convention in Kansas City of the National Catholic Education Association, Father Francis J. Connell revealed that in the revised U. S. catechism which long has been in preparation (TIME, Oct. 17, 1938), Eve will be clearly exonerated...
...Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., once Ethel du Pont, tried to take a picket fence, fell with her horse on top of her, broke her pelvis. Wrote Mother-in-Law Eleanor Roosevelt in her column, My Day: "We must be grateful that she was not killed. I suppose one cannot blame the horse. . . . When I was a child we had an old nurse who used to say . . . 'Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth...
...bridle." On the other, the Russians laughed, drank beer, slapped each other's backs, praised their Red Army "defenders." But among the friends and foes of each side there was a bitter search for reasons, a hunt for scapegoats, a vindictive beating back & forth of the shuttlecock of blame...