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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eight years are the probable span allotted him for this work. Last week he expressed, through Secretary Hull, his condolences upon the death of a man who had influenced U. S. life for 17 years, a man to whom Franklin Roosevelt had lately seemed to be turning as an ally in his stand for democracy against dictatorship (TIME, Jan. 9). Congress, too, paid its respects to that man as a temporal sovereign. For the first time since 1871 Congress adjourned to honor the death of a Pope...
Last week, to capitalize the public sympathy aroused by the Peace Pope's death, Rector Joseph Corrigan of Washington's Catholic University of America, announced a crusade for "God in Government." U. S. Catholics are to pledge themselves to "defend the republic against atheistic propaganda, to maintain respect for rightly constituted authority and finally to combat fearlessly every invasion of the rights of any citizen or any group of citizens...
...Heflin, 70 next April, is now at home in Lafayette, Ala., compiling a book of anecdotes. Said he last week: "I, with millions of other peace-loving Americans, deeply regret the death of the Pope...
...death in 1936 of Assistant Secretary Henry Latrobe Roosevelt (fourth of the blood to hold the office) enabled Franklin Roosevelt to put Charles Edison on the job. Recent naval history made it a formidable task. Post-War reaction against armaments in 1922 led the U. S. into the Washington (naval limitation) Treaty and a long naval sleep. Sailor Roosevelt woke up the country with a bang in 1933, dumped PWA funds into an emergency program, followed up with regular appropriations as soon as Depression I began to lift, has not let up during Depression II. On its Navy...
...made the world safe for democracy that we are forever Mr. Sargent's debtors. The quality of the paintings and of the poetry beneath has been many times profaned, but we can scarcely imagine a finer reflection of the spirit with which our soldiers with one embrace clasped Death and Victory. From our point of view this is genuine art, since it has the happy faculty of satisfying both its admirers and detractors. Its admirers can always turn to it with the sure knowledge that they can recapture the exaltation of those years. Its detractors can rest assured that...