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...advocate approaches, petitions the Pope that Bernadette be added to the calendar of saints-"instanter." The Pope replies that God's guidance must be asked. The congregation chants the Litany of Saints. The advocate repeats his petition-"instanter, instantius." The Pope repeats his reply. The choir sings Veni Creator. Once more the advocate pleads -"instanter, instantius, instantissime." Thereupon the Pope pronounces...
Last week, the Rosenwald Fund (reporting on its activities since the death of the creator in January 1932), announced that its school-building work was ended. But, said Reporter-President Edwin Rogers Embree, the cause of Negro education is far from won. Eight Southern States average $44 per year for a white child's education; $12.50 for a Negro's. Rosenwald Fund will henceforth concentrate on improving the quality of the 15,000 Negro teachers in the schools it built. Prime means: scholarships for promising individuals; and to the four centres of higher Negro education-in Washington, Atlanta...
...Manhattan. Although really shouldering the job of Undersecretary, Earle Bailie was named merely a "special assistant." Hence he does not have to be confirmed by the Senate which might not look with favor on 1) a partner in the private banking firm of J. & W. Seligman; 2) the creator and head of Tri-Continental Corp., one of Wall Street's biggest investment trusts (original capital $100,000,000); 3) a man who likes nothing better than to spend two months of the year as lord of a funny old palace on the shore of the Mediterranean at Portofino, Italy...
...synthetic vocabulary of Mr. James Joyce, to lend the writings of the future an unnecessary flavor of impossibility. Be it regarded as history or romance, "The Shape of Things to Come" is faulty and chaotic in organization; this short-coming is aggravated by the fact that its creator neglected to instruct his secretary to make that handy appendage, an index...
...Earth just long enough to make TIME, Sept. 11. p. 57, a horrid sight and, but for the intervention of the Blue Eagle, to cost several proofreaders and makeup editors their jobs. The Stein whose place he usurped in the limerick is, of course, Sculptor Jacob ("Ep") Epstein, creator of primordial monuments in London. - ED. Dodges to Syndicate to Chrysler Sirs: In your issue of Sept. 4 under Business & Finance, you say, "James Cromwell persuaded the widows of the two Dodge brothers to dispose of the automobile company to Chrysler for $160,000,000." I think many of your readers...