Word: letters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...next day another Lakin letter, written to Mr. Shattuck himself, was turned up by the Committee...
After conferring the galerum rubrum (red hat) and cappa magna (Cardinal's cloak) on the six new Cardinals named last month (TIME, Dec. 2), His Holiness Pope Pius XI last week published an encyclical letter to the Catholic episcopacy. Excerpt: "The greatest malady of the modern age, the principal source of the evils we all deplore, is the lack of reflection. . . . There is only one remedy which I can propose. This is to invite tired souls to have recourse to spiritual exercises. . . . We must not neglect this supernatural breath which is life to many souls...
...enough to put their wavering company firmly on its feet. They had been sitting for a long time without finding a way out of their difficulties when, miraculously, a taL stranger walked into their sanctum, slapped down on the table a $20,000,000 check, said, "There is my letter of introduction...
Stock companies are often pitiful, struggling organizations. Their managers bear incalculable woes. One of these was voiced last week by George J. Houtain, counsel for the Theatrical Stock Managers Association. Declaring in a letter to the American Federation of Musicians that prohibitive union wages and regulations had made music scarce in stock productions, he added: "If a phonograph needed operating behind scenes, you wouldn't allow the manager or one of the company to turn it on or off. . . . It had to be done by a union musician at a full week's wage, and he wasn...
...stamps by Jan. 1 or have his salary cut and have his office degraded to third-class. Citizens despaired; a third-class post office means no city mail delivery. In Chicago Ben Minturn, onetime Florentine schoolmate of O'Brien, read of his friend's predicament, wrote a letter, enclosed a check for $1,000, ordered $900 in 2 cent stamps, $100 in 5 cent stamps, saved the day. Shrewd Friend Minturn could, of course, exchange his stamps for cash at the nearest post office...