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When Isaac Hecker, member of a German Protestant family which grew rich in Manhattan in the grain and baking business (Hecker's Rolled Oats), was converted to Catholicism and became a priest in 1849, there was no indigenous U. S. Catholic missionary order. With the zeal of a convert. Father Hecker founded an order-the Missionary Society of St. Paul the Apostle. Today no part of the U. S. is too remote to interest Paulist Fathers and last week they had good news from Winchester, Tenn...
Gradually his legs grew numb; they were the first to fall asleep. The numbness crept up his body, as ideas--all sick and diseased--ran little circles in his mind. He turned over on his left side; he doubled his legs; he moved his hands under the pillow. He rested. He turned back again on his right side; he crossed his legs; he extended them. His subconscious grasped him, and without recognition he was asleep...
...shares), the ticker lagged four minutes behind and order clerks went hoarse as prices dropped as much as ten points. U. S. Steel thudded to a new low of $52.50, New York Central to a low that day of $18.38. Bonds were under heavy fire from selling and grew cheaper & cheaper. At the close of the day and week, Dow-Jones railroad averages stood at 32.32, industrials 127.15-about the level of October 1935 and taken together a decline of 37% since August...
Wired Radio, Inc., out of which Muzak Corp. grew in 1934, had been incorporated in 1922, was about ready to start opera tions when Depression intervened. Mean while, similar enterprises achieved an enormous success in Europe. The process (whose U. S. name of Muzak is a trade mark perversion of Music) consists merely of playing transcribed music in a central bureau and delivering it by telephone wires to subscribers who hear it through loud speakers. New York City at present is the sole U. S. spot to enjoy Muzak and ordinary citizens enjoyed it there long before tycoons, because...
Moritz Warburg married Charlotte Oppenheim in Hamburg in the middle of the 19th Century. There were five sons. Felix, Paul, Max and Fritz grew up to be bankers, Aby became a famed art historian. Felix followed Paul to the U. S. and into Kuhn, Loeb & Co., stayed with the company after Paul left to help start the Federal Reserve System. But Felix was less interested in banking than in charity & world Jewry...