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...Excerpt from the "bless" prayer: "O Lord, our heavenly Father, the high and mighty Ruler of the universe, who dost from thy throne behold all the dwellers upon earth; Most heartily we beseech thee, with thy favor to behold and bless thy servant THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, and all others in authority...
...Excerpt from the "wisdom" prayer: "O Lord our Governor, whose glory is in all the world; We commend this nation to thy merciful care, that being guided by thy Providence, we may dwell secure in thy peace. Grant to THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, and to all in authority, wisdom and strength to know and to do thy will...
Last week jittery Fascists suppressed too late an anti-war pastoral letter of the Bishop of Cremona which had already been read in every church of the diocese and reprinted in the Vatican's Osservatore Romano. Excerpt: "God punishes peoples by abandoning them to unworthy shepherds or to perverse or inept rulers or by permitting that even the better ones among them commit fatal errors...
...exclusive, wound up as a field day for CBS and Mutual, which persistently got the jump on Schechter and his crew. He rates as the bluntest broadcast he ever heard James Roosevelt's defense of his business activities in reply to an attack by Alva Johnston. Excerpt from the Roosevelt script: "I have a feeling that being the President's son, some people would be calling me a crook no matter what business I had entered, providing I'd been successful." Admitting that radio is still a bit callow, Schechter is certain its newscasting is reasonably mature...
...were given a wide gamut of drama from Euripides to O'Neill, as well as musical comedies, pageants, ballets, puppet shows, children's plays, foreign-language productions, radio programs. She gets a lot of what she feels into a poem about the Theatre's Florida activities. Excerpt...