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Solid and sober as the great Martin Luther looked is U. S. Lutheranism, the intensely individualist faith of many a farmer and small-towner, many a Scandinavian and German-American who still speaks the European tongue of his forebears. Because of the sect's diffuse organization, there is as yet no great single U. S. Lutheran Church whose head might speak with the authority of a Catholic archbishop. Biggest Lutheran body in U. S. is the United Lutheran Church, formed in 1918 of three smaller bodies and today embracing 34 state synods, 4,000 churches...
...embroiled, America today is on another planet. How can men be so silly as to forget their friends? Today I sometimes wonder whether Roosevelt may not be the last American President we shall see friendly to us. Who knows but that some day soon we shall see a German-American in the White House...
Last week Bishop Joseph Francis Rummel of Omaha was appointed Archbishop of New Orleans, succeeding the late Most Rev. John William Shaw. Like many another member of the Western hierarchy, Bishop Rummel held his first pastorates in New York. German-born 59 years ago, long an able shepherd of German-American flocks, he now takes one which is largely French-Creole...
Saarbrucken, The Saar, January 9--Ill-feeling bordering on open violence among rival factions in the Saar plebiscite resulted tonight when the Anti Nazi united front organization bluntly charged the German front leadership with "Terrorist methods" in handling the arrival of German-American voters in the Sunday ballot...
Tomorrow's Harvest (by Hans Rastede & Hyman Adler; Douglas G. Hertz, producer). By means of a weak heart Papa Goerlich, a fireside Hitler, tyrannizes over his cowed German-American family. Nothing must be done to excite him for fear the result might be fatal. It takes Papa Goerlich an unconscionable amount of time to die but he finally does. Tomorrow's Harvest falters on for another act, then it does...