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...reporters who filed into his sanctum on the fifth anniversary of his first inauguration and the first Friday in Lent, Franklin Roosevelt last week promptly announced that the proper lead for the story he was about to give them was this psalm, which he had just heard read at St. John's Episcopal Church. Furthermore, said the Harvard Crimson's onetime chief, make-up editors should put it at the top of the page...
...beginning of Lent last week reminded Christians throughout the world of the last days on earth of the Prince of Peace, churchmen were everywhere considering with renewed soberness the tenuous prospect of peace on earth. Though many Protestant clergymen are out & out pacifists, most Catholics have been restrained on that subject. Newsworthy was it, therefore, when an eminent Catholic divine opened Lent with a ringing pastoral letter on the subject of peace. He was the Most Rev. John Timothy McNicholas, the forceful, ruddy Dominican who for 13 years has been Archbishop of Cincinnati. He wrote...
...pawnbroking is a $600,000,000 a year business. Reputedly the oldest and most celebrated U. S. pawnshop is that of William Simpson, Inc., which was founded in Manhattan by a family which had been pawnbroking in England for five generations. One William Simpson or another has lent money to Steve Brodie, Boss Tweed, Commodore Vanderbilt and Tony Pastor. John L. Sullivan used to hock his diamond-studded championship belt at Simpson's for $400. Evalyn Walsh McLean pawned her Hope Diamond there to get the $100,000 Gaston Means swindled from her as ransom for Charles A. Lindbergh...
...bald Kansas farmer named Clarence Huff its capital-about $1,000,000-was entirely private. But various Government farm agencies immediately began to lend it money. When it was reorganized in 1936 there were $14,000.000 worth of Government loans to be canceled. It was then lent $7,500,000 more by the Farm Credit Administration. It was supposed to repay this sum by an assessment on every bushel of grain it sold for its members. The members objected...
...appointment of the second Harvard coach lent credence to reports that Pennsylvania is more than a little anxious to take the game with Harvard in a couple of years...