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Undergraduate--1st Prize of $500 to Richard S. Salant '35, of New York, N. Y., for an essay entitled "The Poet's Harp." 2nd Prize of $200 to Howard F. Schomer '37, of Oak Park, Ill., for an essay entitled "Robert Frost and the Good Life in the Twentieth Century...
With heart and brains removed, the body of Josef Pilsudski, Dictator of Poland, lay in an oak coffin before the high altar of St. John's Cathedral in Warsaw last week. Outside a drenching cold rain was falling, and so great was the crowd of mourners in the cathedral square that several had their arms broken, dozens were trampled on, scores fainted...
Gene & Glenn are not to be compared as drawing cards with such headliners in their field as Burns & Allen, Jack Benny, Eddie Cantor, the Voice of Experience, the Rev. Charles E. Coughlin. One night last week 24,508 Clevelanders paid 25? each to see & hear Priest Coughlin of Royal Oak, Mich., make the second of twelve personal appearances aimed at welding the "8,000,000 members" of his National Union for Social Justice into a working political organization...
...more than the ordinary yearnings of a Priest toward applied Christianity had young Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, when he was assigned in 1926 to organize a new parish in the Detroit suburb of Royal Oak. A Klan cross burning before his church door turned him to fighting bigotry by radio. For two years he preached simple gospel and his mail grew slowly to 4,000 letters per week. Having imbibed the social doctrines of Pope Leo XIII, he determined to descend from moral generalities to hard social particulars. With uncommon eloquence he articulated popular discontent. When he reviled unemployment, mass...
...four robustious Mills brothers live in staid, suburban Oak Park, where they were raised. Their father who founded the company in 1889 had the distinction of having once cornered the Spanish peanut market and annoyed his less hearty neighbors by keeping a herd of cows on his broad lawns. In winter the Brothers Mills dispatch their jointly-owned yacht Minoco (after their company; to Florida where they continue their fun-making while fishing. Once they made a composite photograph, showing the heads of the four brothers on bodies of more fortunate fishermen...