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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every Jill has her Jack." By way of proving her theory she has brought to gether 600 grateful couples. Twenty-seven babies bear all or part of the name Nelle Brooke Stull. For every visitor she has a copy of a booklet about the Widows' & Widowers' Club. Excerpt: "Mrs. Stull is a veritable bundle of energy, pretty, vivacious and possessed of magnetic eyes, the color of sapphires." When Mrs. Stull discovered that Mr. Kabelac and the Countess could be mar ried at once, she proudly gave the bride away, left for Atlantic City "where 500 of my boys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Swordfish | 11/12/1934 | See Source »

Ministers in some 30 New York cities preached on the milky way. A keynote sermon had been delivered in advance of Milk Month by Rev. Fred Earl Dean, chaplain of the State Grange, in Rochester. Excerpt: "Jesus taught that human life is holy. Since milk means life to the human race, milk is also holy. Yes, I know how it smells and sticks, and how your shoes look around a dairy barn. I know the smart of a cow's tail swished in your eye on a hot summer night, and the sound of greedy hogs in a trough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: In the Churches | 11/5/1934 | See Source »

...Church-Verdier of Paris, Hlond of Poland, Cerejeira of Portugal and Leme da Silviera of Brazil-in opening the Congress to 600,000 Catholics, 75,000 of whom had come from outside Buenos Aires, 5,000 from overseas. As papal legate Cardinal Pacelli read a bull from the Pope. Excerpt: ''We do not doubt that the celebration of the Congress not only demonstrates the universality of the Church, but also shows the splendid brilliance of the reign of Christ the King. . . . We have chosen our legate who in his most ample dignity and power represents our person...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Pomp | 10/22/1934 | See Source »

...excerpt from the letter to Mr. Thomas, giving the main reasons for the meeting, follows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: N. S. L. INVITES THOMAS TO SPEAK AGAINST WAR | 10/19/1934 | See Source »

...Excerpt: "Shall we follow the young couple [just graduated from the Commons] on their first summer's long honeymoon? Supreme happiness is theirs?young, strong, healthy, independent, free and in love! Each will receive daily their necessary rations. The whole country is before them. We can picture them wandering over hill and dale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RECOVERY: Townsend to Burst | 10/15/1934 | See Source »

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