Word: general
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...baseball field they heard a sermon by Most Rev. George's Gauthier, Archbishop-Coadjutor of Montreal. A dynamic, youngish priest whom they all knew, Father Henri Roy, celebrated a nuptial mass after 105 priests made the couples men and wives. Then, in 105 automobiles lent by General Motors of Canada, Ltd., the couples drove to St. Helen's Island, where they ate with 3,000 friends and relations, were given rosaries, crucifixes and photographs of Pope Pius XII-all these tokens sent with the apostolic blessing of His Holiness...
...Today Wendell Willkie is the biggest political figure in U. S. business. Electric power (he calls it "par") is his business, but power in the general sense is a word that recurs often in his philosophy. Free enterprise, free competition and free trade are his tenets for raising the economic standards of society...
...Suitable for parts and bodies of automobiles, airplane fuselages, refrigerators. (Ford and Chrysler are looking it over; General Electric is experimenting...
Commercial broadcasters, who use only amplitude-modulating transmitters, have so far only nibbled at the Armstrong system. But the high-fidelity, interference-free programs from Alpine have created such a stir that General Electric Co. (licensed by Armstrong) started to make receiving sets which could be switched from commercial reception to frequency modulation. Last week these were put on sale in Newark, and this week they will be launched in New York. Price: $75 to $225. Stromberg-Carlson is also preparing to put sets on sale. Besides Alpine, two other frequency-modulating broadcasting stations (at Paxton, Mass, and Hartford, Conn...
Sheean spent September in Czechoslovakia waiting for the war which never came. Instead came "the series of blunders by which the democratic powers surrendered the domination of Europe to Fascism . . . and condemned Europe and the world to a certainty, as I believe, of general...