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...Papen, whom he sent to Rome a year ago to wangle an agreement with the Holy Roman Church. The Concordat then signed looked good on paper. It recognized the religious rights of the Church and provided for full Catholic education of Catholic children. But Hitler let his young hotheads flout the Concordat to such an extent that by last month it had broken down completely. Though he took candle in hand and marched devoutly in one of the many well-attended Corpus Christi parades last month, Vice Chancellor von Papen seemed no longer persona grata to the Church...
...Assembly voted to repudiate the term "Modernist" which the Cleveland Plain Dealer had applied to it when it censured the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions last fortnight. "Conservative" being nearer its mood, it continued to flout the small faction of Fundamentalists in its midst. Dr. Lewis Seymour Mudge, as clerk of the Assembly, despatched an airmail letter to the Independent Board in Philadelphia demanding a certified list of its officers and members, who by Assembly vote are now subject to discipline by their presbyteries...
...because free education-for-all has failed completely and miserably, the "bogus experts" be thrown out and the pedagogues be restored to their proper function of teaching only the elements, only the three R's. Can it be done? Says H. L. M.: "Any publicist bold enough to flout them would be posted instantly as an agent of the Pope, if not, indeed, of Beelzebub. . . . The remedy, I suspect, is in the hands of God alone. . . . I begin to see significant signs. ... In dozens of American communities, large and small, they [gogues] are now being paid in hopes alone...
...stand in glamorous gazing at grandees from out the East. Allahabad's ancient altars, Allah ruled, were not the least. . . . Oboe outbursts blatted blithely, beating drums too, bellowed near. Bedizened elephants and camels, caused a ringing round of cheer. This was time for fun and feasting, flout all thought of foolish fear. But a monarch of the forest flung his head in furious rage, Naught he cared for sovereign sahib, sought some foe now to engage; While the crowd in panic parted, perilled pundits sought a sage. . . . Through the throng just then there thundered, Than upon his tawny steed...
...personal taste that guides them. In this aspect the poll brings the weight of fact to the old contention that legislation is without effect in such moral and personal issues as the use of alcohol. Undergraduates drink if they choose to drink; even those who abstain flout the Constitution in principle if not in actual deed...