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...monkish orders of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the U. S., oldest is the Society of St. John the Evangelist.* Members of this order are commonly called the Cowley Fathers, after the village near Oxford, England, where the order was founded in 1865-and where Viscount Nuffield first made his Morris Cowley and Morris Oxford cars. Mother house of U. S. Cowley Fathers is the Monastery of St. Mary and St. John, on the banks of the Charles River in Cambridge, Mass...
Trained at his father's kiln. Designer Willet acquired a second-generation ease with his materials which has enabled him to perpetrate many a monkish jest in solemn designs. The first work he ever submitted to Architect Cram showed a young, red-haired craftsman offering a sample window to a stern king with Cram's features. In classical script appeared the legend: Non tam bona quam quaedam fortasse mon tam mala quam quaedam alia certe.* Cram looked it over, asked: "What is that little devil doing whispering in my ear?" Said Willet: "Oh, that...
...immorality trials of Catholics in Germany "make Wartime propaganda stories look like bedtime tales" (TIME, May 31), has this crucial issue: Shall the Reich or shall the Catholic Church educate Germany's 2,000,000 or so Catholic children? Catholics hold that Hitler's campaign against monkish immorality is merely a lever to topple the entire German Catholic Church into a sewer of disrepute...
...peaceful little Barbastro, according to two Argentine members of the Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (Claretians) who arrived in Vatican City last week, 40 brothers were killed by Leftists who pointed to their monkish habits, cried: "We kill you for this!" The Claretians replied: "We are happy to die for this! Vivo Cristo El Rey!" At Calaselles 18 Brothers Hospitallers of St. John of God were slaughtered and in Valencia, while the Cathedral burned brightly, 30 secular priests were shot. In Malaga, 50 priests were executed by a machine gun squad. More determinedly irreligious than elsewhere...
Only one German felt strong enough to drive a bargain last week with Chancellor Hitler (see above). The bargain: Monkish little Dr. Hans Luther (twice Chancellor, 1925, 1926) agreed to resign as President of the Reichsbank if Chancellor Hitler would appoint him on the spot Ambassador to Washington. Both men scrupulously kept their word...