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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Putting in a false front tooth is a major feat in dental engineering. Usually dentists get around the difficulty by fitting their patients with removable bridges, often uncomfortable. Sometimes they pare down neighboring teeth, use them as anchors for a permanent bridge...
When Roman Catholics think that their faith has been flouted or their rights have been invaded, they get mad, form picket lines, write letters to editors, buttonhole legislators, in short, act like the political citizens they are. Protestants, whose aggregate weight is much greater, appear by comparison either meek or musclebound. But last week in Philadelphia a Protestant group took off its coat, rolled up its sleeves and displayed capable biceps. A meeting of 500 Protestant ministers and laymen gave enthusiastic endorsement to a League for Protestant Action. Among other things, the League announced its belief in the proposition that...
...Melhorn's League wants to get Protestants to vote, to enter public life; to disseminate Protestant news; to dramatize Protestantism's part in U. S. history. Denying that it is anti-Catholic, the League also denies that it will make use of boycotts. Said Deputy City Treasurer John Park Lee, chief layman in the League: "Because of Catholic pressure. Americans got only a one-sided report of the Spanish conflict. . . . We must never be guilty of the same thing...
...debt. Debt is a very bad word in the folkways. Yet few people realize that if there were no debts there would be no investments, and nothing to be called capitalism.* It is important to keep debt and investment closely associated throughout these hearings. Otherwise you are going to get stump speeches on the horrors of Government debt and the sublimities of private investment. It is equally in order to talk about the virtues of Government investment and dangers of private debt...
...They will cause shipyards to step up production little if at all. Reason: shipbuilding is one industry in which large companies are already operating at virtually full capacity. Major U. S. shipyards, with a backlog of $1,062,800,000 of U. S. Navy business, are jammed up, cannot get busy on more new orders until ships now on the ways are launched...