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...takes is a lawsuit-long-drawn, intricate and complex. In the first step toward canonization a diocesan tribunal is appointed in each diocese where the candidate has lived. Before this tribunal a local Vice Postulator pleads the candidate's "Cause" while a Promoter of the Faith (the "devil's advocate") makes all possible objections at every turn...
Smooth Going. In the U.S., the middle-of-the-road press reaction was almost uniformly favorable. Even the isolationist New York Daily News, which would prefer a free atomic armament race, and devil take the hindmost, said that the Baruch plan was best, if there had to be a plan. The Daily Worker in New York and the Daily Worker in London both denounced it. The reactions of these Communist papers, however, was less important than that of Communist Andrei Gromyko, the Soviet delegate. Pressed for comment on Baruch's proposals, Mr. Gromyko said: "So far matters are going...
...poor boy and a poor young man. At 15, he went to work as a printer's devil. After he learned his trade he traveled the countryside as a journeyman printer with no baggage but a shirt, a fighting cock and a few books. Poverty kept him rebellious, but it also made him patient, diligent, capable of drudgery. He became an editor. At 30, by borrowing money, he bought the Lynchburg Daily News. Inevitably he got into politics. But he did not begin his real career until he went to Congress...
...devil abroad in his 20th Century world is the ultra-rational scientist-technocrat, for whom man is the measure of all things; who would storm heaven with test tubes, nuclear fission and pure reason. Of one of his satanic prototypes Lewis says: "He had passed from Hegel into Hume, thence through Pragmatism, and thence through Logical Positivism, and out at last into the complete void...
...Devil into Savior. A more spectacular example of Communist organizing technique is the ancient town of Albi in southwestern France. For centuries the people of Albi have blown fine glassware. To them and their peasant neighbors a year ago a Communist was no more welcome than the Devil himself. But last winter Albi's glass furnaces were cold. The local party unit explained the situation to HQ in Paris. Thorez in person cajoled his Pas-de-Calais miners into producing extra coal for little Albi. It was Tammany Hall with freight trains instead of Christmas baskets, and, like Tammany...