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...managing editor of The Witness, Episcopal weekly. He feared that much the same thing was about to happen under NRA, and that some day churchmen might regret it just as much. Wrote Editor Spofford: "I presume most of us now realize that we made a mistake in those far-off days and that we did wrong in allowing the State to gobble up the church to use for its own purposes. We can see the issue clearly enough today when Hitler tries to capture the Church in Germany. We do not see quite as clearly when we ourselves are involved...
...Palmer died, not at the scene of her greatest social triumphs but in far-off Florida. She left an estate of $15,000,000 of which her Son Potter Jr. was active manager...
Over the noisome brown Gran Chaco, battling doormat of Bolivia and Paraguay, ominous silence has lain for more than a month. Paraguayan soldiers, backed against their Verdun, a hummock topped by French-built Fort Nanawa, have had nothing to do but scratch hard-biting Chaco lice. In far-off Geneva, where they could not see the smile on the face of Bolivia's German General Hans Kundt, complacent League statesmen thought their efforts to promote a truce were bearing fruit. But ingenious General Kundt had set his Bolivian soldiers to the sort of work Bolivians do best-digging deep...
THIS is what is known to trade and criticism as an Irish novel," which means that the prose style is "poetic," that the narrative is threaded with "Irish mysticism," and that the here is a melancholy follow, walking in twilight and yellow fog, and meditating on old, unhappy far-off things. There is a thin and rather outre plot, not much narrative, but considerable dissection of mood and temperament...
Still largely a pet of the rich, the Pekingese is regarded by most nonowners as a snobbish, fragile toy. But its fanciers claim for it intelligence, warmheartedness, loyalty and all the courage of that far-off, amorous lion...