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...Calif., east of Los Angeles, traveled 500 miles to a seashore inn north of San Francisco. And there, before poisoning himself, he wrote a long "thesis on death" to his wife and two young sons at home. The "thesis" lay beside his body when it was discovered last week. Excerpt: "Surely there can be no good reason for going on and maiming honest people just to eke out a living. To me general practice was just a life of mayhem and murder. ... I am not at all afraid of Death. Death is an old friend...
...produced a copy of its G-Men's oath, signed by Leon Turrou. Excerpt: ". . . The strictly confidential character of any and all information secured by me in connection directly or indirectly with my work ... is fully understood by me, and neither during my tenure of service with the Federal Bureau of Investigation nor at any other time will I violate this confidence...
...Sisters of Charity. Throughout her short life Mother Seton kept up a journal and a voluminous correspondence, with a remarkable literary quality which Author Feeney likens to Elizabeth Browning's. To her son William, who went to sea as a midshipman, she wrote passionately loving letters. Excerpt: "Last night I had you close where you used to lie so snug and warm when you drew the life stream 20 years ago, and where the heart still beats to love you dearly till its last sigh, which even then will love you best...
Most ministers would grant that Fiorello LaGuardia's pulpit manner is unorthodox, but that his instinctive knowledge of homiletics is good, his exegesis not bad. Excerpt from his sermon to the police: " 'Give us this day our daily bread' is not a figure of speech. . . . What some of us who are called radical are trying to do is to answer that call in His name as He would have us do. That, gentlemen, is why the fight is still on. Christ knew that the symbol of the Cross He died on would be an everlasting reminder...
...spending since 1933 had been misguided ("natural forces of recovery were partly strengthened and partly hampered by the action of the Government") as that current Depression in the U. S., as a failure of purely national planning, serves to emphasize the need of greater international economic coordination. Excerpt...