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...Largest Catholic welfare agency in the U. S. is the Catholic Charities of New York, which coordinates and supplements the work of 214 Catholic bodies maintaining hospitals, homes, nurseries, settlements, miscellaneous health, vocational and recreational services. The pride of Patrick Cardinal Hayes, New York's "Cardinal of Charities," since its founding 18 years ago, the Catholic Charities has donated $21,000,000 to its constituent bodies, whose expenditures now total $10,000,000 a year. Its 1938 drive, announced last week to begin late this month, will...
...Though in the past 46 years some $20,000,000 has been spent on Manhattan's great Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine, world's largest cathedral (in cubic capacity), neither its exterior nor interior has been completed. Astute Bishop William Thomas Manning, not loath to identify the cathedral with New York's forthcoming World's Fair, has launched a campaign to raise $1,000,000 to finish the interior so that Fairgoers may worship there. At present, services are held not in the finished Gothic nave but in the crossing, at the intersection...
...Government officially announced that the Labor Front is now beginning work "immediately" near Brunswick on the world's largest automobile plant, expressly to build Volkswagen. The plant, a Nazi show place, is to rise in the open countryside, surrounded by new homes for thousands of workers, with sports grounds, gymnasium, a hotel for visitors, administration offices perched high in a tower. Keynoted Nazi spokesmen: "Soon there will be a Volkswagen for every German...
...clearing all consulates out of Leningrad (the U. S. has no consulate there) so that foreigners will find it unsafe to linger in that Baltic port where she plans to launch a naval building program in secrecy. The U. S. S. R. already has the world's largest army-1,300,000 men-and last week new-Navy Commissar Peter A. Smirnov declared at Moscow: "We are going to build not only the best but also the biggest navy in the world...
...Argentine Constitution. Not so surprised were politicos when Justo hand-picked his successor, Dr. Roberto M. Ortiz, his Finance Minister. In Argentine politics the Government nominee usually wins. When the votes were counted five months ago Justo's man had done even better. He had rolled up the largest popular vote in the country's history...