Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moriz Rosenthal boasts that he can tear a pack of cards in half, break an iron horseshoe with his bare hands, snap a taut piano string with one blow of his index finger, lift a 200-lb. weight over his head. Long a student of jujitsu, he took up boxing in his 60s, has trained for several months under the guidance of Welsh Heavyweight Tommy Farr...
...fortnight ago, were only down 6% from 1937 last week. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce declared: "All of the evidence points to some improvement in business. ... It is too early to know the strength present trends will develop. ..." The New York Times was less optimistic. Its business index fell and when commercial, industrial and agricultural loans by New York member banks of the Federal Reserve System shrank for the fifth week in succession, the Times committed itself to the prediction that this "pretty well smashed all hopes of a 'normal seasonal expansion' this autumn." Last week, however, bank...
...George William Cardinal Mundelein, Cardinal Hayes was less conservative, less stern than the two other U. S. princes-Boston's William Henry Cardinal O'Connell. Philadelphia's Dennis Cardinal Dougherty. Six months will probably elapse before the Pope, guided by the Vatican's card index of U. S. candidates, picks a new Archbishop of New York...
...Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office is the awesome tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church which guards the integrity of Catholic faith & morals, deals with heresies (it once had charge of the Inquisition), handles mixed marriage cases, maintains the dread Index of Prohibited Books. So potent is the Holy Office that it is nominally headed, not by a Cardinal, like other congregations, but by the Pope himself. Last week the Holy Office-with or without the knowledge of Pope Pius XI-was in the centre of a holy row, kicked up by a devoted but backboned British convert...
...Project: 1) to clarify, by research, "the native background of the arts," and 2) to break up the big city monopoly on Art by getting people all over the U. S. interested in art as an everyday part of living and working. To accomplish the first aim, the Index of American Design was set up in January 1936, and to date has employed about 500 watercolorists and draftsmen in digging up old wood carving, weathervanes, costumes, toys, needlework, china, and other craft objects of which more than 8,000 renderings, of marvelous exactitude, have already been made. This compilation...