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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Often of late in Washington has been heard the phrase, "New Patriots." President Hoover coined it himself to apply to the potent citizens he was drawing into Federal service. To these men he explains that they are patriots because each of them makes a "personal sacrifice" to accept appointment. The "sacrifice" meant by the President in most cases is a heavy loss of income, plus the presumptive inconvenience if not discomfort of leaving home to visit or live in Washington...
...trouble had begun when Mario De Figueiredo, Minister of Justice, signed a decree increasing the citizens' freedom to hold religious parades and to ring churchbells while they did so. Previous regulations had required official permission for each and every general bell-ringing. Reason : it is often by churchbells that popular revolts are called. Disgruntled at this relaxation in the strong-arm sway of Dictator-President General Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona, the Minister of War and others protested. The difference could not be settled...
...consensus: Labor sometimes praises organized religion, more often indicts...
David Herbert Lawrence, bearded son of a miner and of letters, has often shocked his native England with the pagan implications of his novels (Sons and Lovers, Women in Love). His most recent tale, Lady Chatterley's Lover, he thought best to publish privately, stealthily. But officialdom soon learned of its existence, found the book so concupiscent that it was forever banned from England...
...cross his big bony arms in front of his face to protect it from Schmeling's choppy thrusts, to bend over forward and try to butt Schmeling around to where he could be hit by a wild-swinging attack. After he found the range, Uzcudun thrashed often and heavily into Schmeling's ribs during their head-to-head clinches. But Schmeling stood it well and got the better of this horizontal infighting. His jolting up-jabs eventually got Uzcudun erect. Then Schmeling continued his face attack like a boxer wearing down but unable to subdue a brute. Eyes closed...