Word: notes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sirs: I note with considerable interest that you reflect in the columns of TIME an unusual knowledge of the NRA program and the purposes behind it. I feel, therefore, that perhaps you can throw some light on a question that is bothering a number of people in this community. As a group we are pretty patriotic down here. Usually we subscribe about 100% to movements such as the NRA. Even now, when the movement is in its infancy it is very difficult to find a business not under the Blue Eagle-with one very notable exception. Surprising...
Whether, in return, the gangsters got any real money was uncertain. Federal agents declared it was all bogus, but reports were current that the package contained at least $500 in bills wrapped around a stack of note paper...
...rape and murder. On the night of Fairbanks' escape, a milk delivery girl was found on the camp grounds raped and murdered. Nearby was Fairbanks' coat and a letter to him from Howard's wife, which is shown to Howard. Soon a German plane drops a note, countersigned by Prisoner Howard, requesting Fairbanks' return. On the front-line a white flag is raised. The Germans raise another, send out two men. The Allied lines send out three, including Fairbanks. In No Man's Land the party engages in chitchat, cigaret-exchanging, and Fairbanks is handed...
Sharp-eyed Catholics will note that in almost every sequence Pius XI is accompanied by his favorite secretary, Monsignor Camillo Caccia Dominioni, who is supposed to have been secretly nominated a Cardinal last spring. The four U. S. Cardinals appear, with the camera most friendly to New York's amiable Hayes. The famed Swiss Guards parade in the uniforms which Michelangelo designed for them-cuirasses, helmets, ruffs, yellow, red and black striped knickerbockers. In the larger scenes-the raising of the Cross in the Coliseum, the Chicago and Dublin Eucharistic Congresses, the opening of the Holy Year last April...
...Chicago Tribune has approved defrilling Chicago schools on the ground that retrenchment is the only way to head off a chaotic year like the past one. Last week it was pleased to note that the Save-Our-Schools Committee and its rival the Herald & Examiner were wrong about one thing. They had insisted that it would cost $800,000 to make the old junior high schools suitable for seniors. The contracts let last week totaled only $87,686. The Herald & Examiner countered that this was merely the preliminary cost, that there would be more to pay later...