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Thompsonites. With her background of eight years as a correspondent in Vienna and Berlin before the rise of Adolf Hitler, Dorothy Thompson last December joined Publicists Herbert Sebastian Agar (Louisville Courier-Journal) and Hamilton Fish Armstrong (Foreign Affairs) in composing a "Re-Declaration of American Faith" to which, on Benjamin Franklin's birthday (January 17), the National Student Federation set out to obtain "several million'' signatures. First they signed up 63 Big Names, including such diverse characters as William Allen White, William Green, Marshall Field III, Al Smith. Central proposition of their manifesto is an inverted declaration...
...became head of the seriocomic Demagogs' Club in the House, Martin Dies had been built up by Franklin Roosevelt's enemies to the point where even critics of noisy Mr. Dies and friends of Mr. Roosevelt did not dare vote against the former. From an obscure eight-year man in the House, with more of Washington's shoe-polish than of Texas' alkali on his boots. Martin Dies had, with all his unfairness as a prosecutor and ineptitude as an investigator, become the Opposition's favorite splinter in the Administration's fundament. His continuance...
...property owners for loss or damage of property "as far as circumstances permit" -i. e., as long as the treasury is able to pay. In order to keep vital trade going during a war, the Government has worked out an insurance scheme with Lloyd's of London and eight other insurance concerns, which will, in turn, be reinsured to a certain extent by the Government, to cover British merchantmen, their cargoes and the stock of goods stored in the country...
South America has some 65,000,000 Catholics. Between its principal nations and the Holy See there is deer and traditional respect; the eight largest States exchange diplomatic representatives with the Vatican. Brazil runs neck-&-neck with Italy as the world's largest Catholic State, although its 40,000,000 Catholics are shepherded by only 6,000 priests.* Bishop Ryan and Father Sheehy, looking businesslike to South American churchmen, who still wear their soutanes in the street, visited papal nuncios and hierarchs, talked with them in Italian and French, found everywhere that Latin American prelates look...
Nominations for election to the Student Council will henceforth be made by a committee consisting of eight Seniors on the Council, five Juniors not on the Council, and four Sophomores. In the past the Student Council itself selected the candidates...