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...technicality about the witnesses. The Chief Justice, an Anglican, declared: "Such authority as the Church has in civil matters is given to it by the law of the land, and the Church and every church is subservient to and in no sense dominates the law. . . . Any church may bless or curse a marriage to its ecclesiastical heart's content but it does not in any way affect the validity of the marriage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Marriage in Quebec | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

...Pope did bless Francisco Franco, but in these words: "We send from our hearts the apostolic blessing, propitiator of divine favors." At TIME'S Foreign News editor and checker, raised eyebrows for misapplying the Pope's words about St. Salvador da Horta to Generalissimo Franco; to TIME'S Roman Catholic readers, an apology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 16, 1938 | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...Bless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 4, 1938 | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

...their writers used the TIME article as a peg on which to hang columns and columns about "Our Gracie." In the London Daily Express a four column analysis by James Agate is headed "IS GRACIE FIELDS COMMON?" The concluding words are, "She is common, vulgar, and low. Bless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 4, 1938 | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

...into the purser's department of an American company. After a surprising short time, by tattling on the ships' officers for breaches of decorum ... he will be moved into the main office as an assistant something or other to one of the 978 vice presidents. . . . Bless those others on these seas and give them better, faster ships, and in the generations to come give us honest shipowners who will give a thought to the man. ... I cast the bottle containing this into the bosom of the cruelest of mistresses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Crudest Mistress | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

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