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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...adduces no evidence of the partiality of the present board and one would think that if such proof existed, he would triumphantly drag it forth. For as a lawyer, Mr. O'Brian probably appreciates the importance of evidence. As a matter of fact, all the evidence supplied by English experience suggests that most employers can have peace if they're willing to bargain with their employees instead of beating them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: J. LORD O'BRIAN | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

...back as the 12th Century, England imported the best leather from Cordova, Spain, and by the time Chaucer wrote his Canterbury Tales it was natural for an English shoemaker of standing who used the best Cordovan leather to be called a "cordewaner." Later the word became "cordwainer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: What Price Peace? | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

...official Communist Party organ Pravda ("Truth") charged: "He [Lindbergh] had an order from English reactionary circles to prove the weakness of Soviet aviation and give Chamberlain an argument for capitulation at Munich in connection with Czechoslovakia. The bribed liar, Lindbergh, fulfilled the order of his masters. That explains everything!" Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh, according to Pravda, were "cordially and sincerely received by the Soviet people" when they visited Russia in 1933, but last August "nobody invited him [to Russia] and if he was permitted to come it was because Americans had requested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Explains Everything! | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

Standard Bible for English-speaking Roman Catholics is the Douay-Reims version, named for the French towns where, at English colleges, the New Testament was translated from the Latin in 1582, the Old in 1609. To bring the Douay-Reims Bible up to date and to get a modernized Scripture approved by the U. S. hierarchy has been the aim, during the past three years, of the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Catechetical Congress | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

...Last week 5,000 Catholics gathered in Hartford, Conn, for the Confraternity's Catechetical Congress - so called because catechetical is the adjectival form of catechism, which means teaching. At the Congress were introduced two new aids to Catholic teaching: a revised catechism, a gospel newly put into English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Catechetical Congress | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

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