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...Spanish soldiers and a gang of Mexican muleteers journeyed 900 mi. overland from Lower California to the Pacific, which they reached at the sandspit of San Diego. On Aug. 2, they forded a shallow river among sunburnt hills, discovered a village of unpromising heathens, named it for the feast day of Our Lady of the Angels and pushed on. Few years later the glory of God was attested by Franciscan missions in these towns and for 1,000 miles along the Pacific Coast. The mission of San Gabriel Arcangel out side Los Angeles grew the first wine grapes and oranges...
...time; at the moment there is danger that pure learning may outstrip the liberal arts because of Mr. Conant's emphasis on research work. But as learning makes the life blood of the arts, so the arts stimulate men's minds for things intellectual and start them on a feast of which college is no more than the hors d'oeuvres. Then, professional training remains for post-graduate work, with the college viewpoint left unclouded by "the dull glasses of immediate utility." The houses and tutorial system make healthy student life an everyday reality...
...Titulescu as Rumanian Foreign Minister or forced his reinstatement. This, however, could go on only so long as Paris had loans and worthwhile favors to offer Bucharest, for the Rumanian people and their politicians, not to mention King Carol II, are frankly mercenary. Their last public love feast with France was at the time Rumania was visited with a splurge of lavish rewards by aged but scholarly and high-spirited French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou. This twinkling-eyed oldster returned from the Balkans only to be shot dead along with Yugoslav's King Alexander a few days later...
...Mike") Conner was not only a triumph for Senator Harrison and the New Deal, but also a thoroughgoing rebuke to junior Senator Theodore Gilmore ("The Man") Bilbo, who had vented his spite against the senior Senator by campaigning for Conner. Theme of all 15 speakers at a Harrison victory feast in Jackson: "Now that we've licked Bilbo, we'll throw him into the Gulf four years from...
Last week on the feast of the Assumption of Our Lady, a little group of devout U. S. Anglo-Catholics gathered on Memorial Drive by the River Charles in Cambridge, Mass. There for a decade a Romanesque monastery has been intermittently under construction, the U. S. mother house of the Society of St. John the Evangelist (Cowley Fathers), oldest (1865) order of priests in the Anglican communion. Present last week to lay the cornerstone of a chapel dedicated to St. Mary, Mother of God, were Episcopal Suffragan Bishop Samuel Gavitt Babcock of Massachusetts, pious Architect Ralph Adams Cram, Glassman Charles...