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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kelly Tribune, permitted to scoop its competitors on the Committee's findings, identified it as consisting of "100 representative Chicagoans." The anti-Kelly News, remembering that the mayor invited local bigwigs to join such a committee last June, produced a better scoop. Only 30 had joined and of these 23 had never seen the report. "I didn't attend any meetings," said puzzled President Frank Cunningham of Butler Bros...
...range of Gibraltar might have cut the British lifeline there, and Italy might have used her navy & air force to chop up the same lifeline at Suez and in the Mediterranean, although Mussolini & Franco might have done what Italy did in 1915, change sides for a fancy price to join Britain & France...
...Similarly, since the Fascist Party was founded as an organization of World War veterans, nearly every Jewish "old comrade" of the Dictator is now exempt from antiSemitism, as are several high Jewish officers in the Italian fighting forces, together with every Italian Jew who was sufficiently pro-Fascist to join the Party as late as two years after the March on Rome, or to volunteer right up to a few days ago to fight in Spain...
Earlier in the program, the combined string sections and horns will join in a performance of a divertimento in B flat by Mozart, K. No. 287. The piece was composed and presented in 1777, during Mozart's twenty-first year while he was in Munich on the first stages of his ninth concert tour of Europe. Mozart played the first violin in the performance, and prepared for himself a very brilliant part...
Last spring in Utrecht, Holland a constitution was drawn up for a projected World Council of Churches (TIME, May 23). Last week in Manhattan the U.S. backers of this movement met, learned that two U.S. churches, the Presbyterian and the Congregational-Christian, had voted to join the Council. Ten others approved in principle: the Northern Baptists, Reformed and Evangelical-Reformed Churches, two smaller Presbyterian bodies, two Lutheran groups, the Disciples of Christ, the Episcopal and Methodist Episcopal Churches. Only body which had thumbed down the World Council, the Southern Baptist Convention, was expected to reconsider at its next meeting...