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...another Day, Rev. Gardiner M., student pastor at Williams College. Telling the Church League for Industrial Democracy about his summer in Soviet Russia, he called the Russian Orthodox Church ''a reactionary, counter-revolutionary force, run by ignorant and dirty priests." Rector Day was either unaware or heedless that his Church is in close sympathy with the Orthodox communion, and that in the front row of his audience sat a distinguished convention guest-Rev. Sergius Bulgakov, dean of the Russian Orthodox Seminary in Paris. His eyes blazing and his long beard flying. Professor Bulgakov strode up to the chairman...
...foremost British man-modiste, Captain Edward Henry Molyneux was commissioned to create Princess Marina's wedding dress, but she had fun in Paris buying much of her trousseau last week, heedless of the Empire watchword "Buy British...
...Great Britain's dole army was conjured. Once on, the unemployed could never be taken off the Dole, said the prophets. There would be riots, bloodshed, insurrection. Administrator Hopkins heeded not at all. By December he had hired his 4,000,000 men. In mid-February, still heedless of the conservatives' lugubrious prophecy, he began to fire them again, promising to extinguish...
Nowhere in their civics textbook (Our City-New York) can New York City's public school children find anything about Tammany Hall or their city's extra-legal government. To complete their education the City Affairs Committee, a non-partisan reform organization, last week offered a heedless Board of Education a new textbook that was all about Tammany. It was called New York & The Sea bury Investigation. It was edited by Columbia's Professor John Dewey, famed philosopher and unselfish friend, of every reform. In satirically simple language it described the city's "boss system...
...Chicago, heedless to Col. Ruppert's national plea, got its beer cold and at the zero hour. While sirens, pistols and cowbells sounded, State Street establishments dispensed to rows four deep. Louis Schneider, winner of the Indianapolis Memorial Day auto race in 1931, piloted a beer truck bound out of town. The Illinois Legislature having failed to agree on a beer dispensary bill, Acting Mayor Frank Corr announced that no city licenses would be levied, that Chicago would be on "beer probation...