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TIME'S motto: De mortuis nil hokum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 15, 1938 | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

Believing that too many churches are "put in mothballs" during the summer, Rev. Dr. John Robbins ("Jack") Hart Jr., Philadelphia Episcopalian, last summer founded an Anti-Mothball Society (TIME, July 12, 1937). Its motto: DON'T SLOW UP. Unlike many another church promotion scheme, which quietly expires after getting some publicity, the Anti-Mothball Society last week had by no means slowed up. Energetic, curly-haired Jack Hart, associate rector of midtown St. Stephen's Church, longtime unofficial chaplain at the University of Pennsylvania, since last November the active rector of Washington Memorial Chapel in Valley Forge, expanded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Anti-Mothball | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

This week, tireless Butler Moody, well on his way to becoming a domestic tycoon, also announced in Staff that he would supervise a commercially-sponsored series of films in the interests of better living for the masses. The motto: "If you cannot afford to employ help in your own home, at least know how to do things right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Butlers' O. K. | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

Others had heard those words. Another voice, not so golden, not so sonorous, not so fluid, came back to the Vagabond. "These are serious times. Liberty is crumbling over two-thirds of the world. . . . The ultimate safeguard of liberty is the independence of the judiciary. . . . I give you a motto: 'Hands off the Supreme Court...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

...University's motto applies to present as well as past truth. But present truth is more awkward than past and a concern for factual teaching is sometimes a simple disguise for evasion of present truth. Yours very sincerely, Marcel Francon, Instructor in Romance Languages...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 3/10/1938 | See Source »

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