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...Molokai Island when in 1873 a young Belgian named Father Damien (Joseph De Veuster) begged his bishop to send him there. Father Damien worked like a beaver to improve the place, made himself and it famous. One Sunday in 1885 he opened his sermon not with the customary "Brethren" but simply: "We lepers...
...extremely profitable investment. Scarcely captions either is the suggestion that Christ Temple, Inc., has made good use of its tax exemption privilege. The posthumous reports of Mr. Solomon's wit may be exaggerated, but he surely told no one he was conducting an athletic organization." If the Pentecostal brethren chose to believe that he was somnolence or mendacity must be their alternatives. And Rip van Winkle must yield to Mr. Pecksniff in the fine art of spinning law suits...
...objection than these, however, to the very idea which the Poetry Room embodies. It stands for an artificial sentiment about poetry as a kind of writing which requires to be set off by itself and cradled in an arty setting of red velvet to distinguish it from its weaker brethren. In the atmosphere of the Woodberry Memorial, poetry becomes a minor specialty, with no discernible relationship to anything vital, but somehow valuable for sentimental associations. This is an attitude to which a great many people subscribe without feeling that a trip to the third floor of Widener is quite worth...
Editor Bangs, 42, onetime president of Huntington College (United Brethren), acquired the News last year. Last October he had a row with the banks, flayed them editorially, charged them with alienating his advertisers, threatening his newsboys. Also he attacked the rates of Northern Indiana Power...
...Democrats last week for the short session of Congress. In 70 working days they hoped to do what would keep a regular session humping for six months. As a starter last week the Senate opened leisurely debate on turning the Philippines loose. House Democrats, less visionary than their Senate brethren, formulated no elaborate schedule of legislation. Their primary concern was to pass eleven bulky bills appropriating some four billion dollars on which to run the Government during fiscal 1934. Unless these are all enacted before March 4 a special session of the 73rd Congress is inevitable. Later the House will...