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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rightist Spain last week, Generalissimo Franco's Cabinet approved a decree re-establishing the Society of Jesus. How many of them were left in Spain, U. S. Jesuits did not know. Whether or not 80% of the Spanish fathers had been killed, as the Vatican reported last year, at least 100 are known to be dead. To U. S. Jesuits this re-establishment seemed to disprove recent rumors that Spanish Jesuits were chafing under the Franco regime, mistrusting his Fascist allies. Nevertheless, such reports have been vouched for in France-where Catholic orders such as Jesuits and Dominicans...
...know Richard Whitney...
...divulge anything relating to the case, Lawyer Mason said he had asked Stock Exchange Governor E. H. H. Simmons on February 16 for an immediate audit of Richard Whitney & Co. "I said to Mr. Simmons that I was very much concerned about Dick Whitney; that I did not know whether he was solvent or insolvent, but I felt there was very grave risk. . . . He asked me if I knew about the events of November. I said that I did. He asked me if I had talked to George Whitney about it. I said that I had. Then he mentioned...
...Classics, suffering from a decline in the number who are fortunate enough to know the ancient languages, would receive no harm if a course were given with reading in English translation, although this certainly would be a blow to the dignity of moribund classicism. Yet this might in the end be beneficial. It would make the present low state of the classics plain even to those who occupy commanding positions in its Ivory Tower, and by dispelling false pride based on illusions of grandeur, stimulate them to new thought on how best to use the unquestionable values that are still...
Explaining that many propagandists are constantly trying to persuade the people that they can make logical judgments "when in reality they are cynically playing upon our emotions," President Conant declares, "They would make us believe that by a few hours of study we know enough to decide on complicated technical problems...