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...difficult to analyze one whose role in life is such that she must constantly adjust herself to rapidly changing situations, but we are satisfied . . . that Brenda Frazier is no flower of this season alone but . . . will continue perennially green--a thing of beauty, and a joy forever. And when time at last has overtaken her footsteps she will bequeath to life a delicate, pleasant memory through the recorded incidents in the life of a mature and mellowed beauty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A JOY FOREVER | 2/21/1939 | See Source »

...having someone on your staff such as the flagitious reprobate who wrote that cowardly article [TIME, Jan. 30] ? May I also praise you and your atheistic masters for allowing an attack on the Catholic Church through your unwarranted and scurrilous article referring to the Church of the Little Flower as a silo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 13, 1939 | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...Your insulting and unethical remarks about Father Coughlin and the Little Flower Shrine, are resented by me and many of my friends, and if an apology is not forthcoming in your publication at a very early date we shall boycott TIME, and will start a strong and active campaign against your magazine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 13, 1939 | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

Attorney General Frank Murphy, whose sister calls him Christlike, last week named the man to run his new Civil Liberties Unit: Henry A. Schweinhaut, the special assistant who prosecuted civil-liberties violations in Harlan County, Ky. and in Jersey City. Besides protecting liberty's delicate flower, Mr. Murphy last week received the grubbier task of rooting evil weeds out of the Federal judiciary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE JUDICIARY: Flower and Weeds | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

Into the office of New York City's Mayor Fiorello ("Little Flower") LaGuardia last week marched indignant New York City florists. Their complaint: School principals, sympathizing with depression-pinched parents, had nipped in the bud an old U. S. custom: flowers at graduation. Cried Spokesman Anthony Gillis (to no avail): "Every year we look forward to graduation. Now flowers are forbidden. This goes to show there is something wrong somewhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Omit Flowers | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

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