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Polls & Partisans. Dry fodder to Republicans, but to Jim Farley and the Democratic donkey a feast, were the presidential straw votes conducted by The Literary Digest and the Hearst-papers. Every four years since 1920 the Digest's poll has successfully predicted the outcome with never more than a 5% error in the total vote. Each time the victorious G. O. P. accepted the poll at full value, hailed it as accurate, authoritative. This year the Digest's canvass of some 20 million citizens points strongly to a Democratic sweep. Last week the vote stood...
...Pope Pius XI, whose words he had often translated into English, notably in the first international papal broadcast last year, and in the encyclical on "Catholic Action," which Monsignor Spellman carried to Paris, translating as he went. Last week the Pope affectionately recalled that on the same day, the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, he himself had taken possession of the Archbishopric of Milan. Then Pius XI received Bishop Spellman's relatives, gave the men gold medals, the women rosaries. Bishop Spellman got a large gold medallion for his mother. But his honors were...
...candles in church is older than the church itself. Liturgical candles are traditionally of beeswax, for bees were once supposed to be virgin. The great paschal candle typifies Christ's flesh, its wick His soul, its flame the all-absorbing Divinity. On Candlemas Day (Feast of the Purification, Feb. 2) there is a special ceremony for blessing candles. A burning candle is placed in the hand of a person at baptism, and as Death comes...
...Aida, Frederick Jagel, Metropolitan Opera tenor, made his Cincinnati debut and when his first aria rang far out over the Zoo grounds the wisest of the monkeys knew that another season was safely under way, scratched their whiskers eagerly for the intermission peanut feast...
...Pope's remedies for these manifold evils are Prayer, Penance, Mortification. For this purpose he set the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, June 3, for the beginning of eight days of prayer for deliverance...