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...William Thomas Manning, plainly born Briton who is now Episcopal Bishop of New York, is an uncompromising moralist. Last week, at the news that the learned Earl had been appointed a professor and department head at the College of the City of New York (TIME. March 4), Bishop Manning got out his snickersnee, wrote a hot letter to the newspapers. Quoting from his Lordship's writings ("Outside human desires there is no moral standard. ... In the absence of children, sexual relations are a purely private matter which does not concern either the state or the neighbors.. ..") The plain...
...which he has made such a mess (TIME, Sept. 18). To take over the Ministry of Information the Prime Minister appointed Sir John Reith, "The Man Who Made The British Broad casting Corp." and whose deep voice the world heard introducing the abdication broadcast of Edward VIII. A strict moralist, nonsmoker, teetotaler and a man famed for his dislike of newspapers and publicity of all sorts, Sir John will now have supreme charge of censoring the British press and of getting publicity for the British cause...
Died. Dr. Edward Alexander Wester-marck, 76, Finnish sociologist, a bachelor who was a world-famed authority on marriage ; in Lapinlahti, Finland. No medieval moralist, Dr. Westermarck championed the single standard for marriage, tilted against companionate marriage, polygamy, adultery, homosexuality. His concluding sentence in the first editions of The History of Human Marriage won him honorary vice-presidencies in two feminist societies: "The history of human marriage is the history of a relationship in which women have been gradually triumphing over the passion, prejudices, and selfish interests of men." In 1921, concluding that Woman had been outpaced by Civilization...
Munich. To Churchill, the military man, the loss of Czecho-Slovakia was bad enough; to Churchill, the political moralist it was frightful. Coming after the abdication crisis (when Churchill had attacked Prime Minister Baldwin, been hauled down in the House), the Munich pact unnerved him as the World War never had. "The blow has been struck!" he cried, and as he harped steadily on its enormity, brooded over Britain falling into the power orbit and influence of Nazi Germany," the stories that Winston Churchill was passing out of public life flourished in the first post-Munich relief...
...further big New Deal test cases are slated to appear before the Supreme Court before 1941. Therefore the job that Frank Murphy was left when he succeeded Mr. Cummings was substantially a cop's job, and he took to it with all the fervor of an Irish moralist, all the energy that his red hair, purposeful jaw and 46 years bespeak...