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...about time that such a reputable journal as TIME stopped reiterating that old gag about Henry VIII being the founder of the Anglican Church? . . . For example, in "Bureau oi Information" published in the Roman paper known as Our Sunday Visitor (issue of April 1940), the question "Who founded the Episcopal Church?" is answered in this way: "The Episcopal Church is a branch of the Anglican Church. . . . This Church was not actually founded by Henry VIII . . . but under Edward VI and Queen Elizabeth the present Church was formed." At last someone in Rome has discovered that Henry did not found...
...making a"); and by closing and diphthongizing certain vowels, so that "ask" sounds like "ay-usk" (or "ay-ust"), and "cough" sounds like "co-uff." The uneducated New Yorker seems to say "shoik" for "shirk" and "cherce" for "choice." Actually he uses the same sound, intermediate between ir and oi, for both words...
President Conant assumed office in 1933 with this situation confronting him. Over a period of six years, it has been the purpose oi the present administration to explore every avenue for solving the problem. After a study of the departments in which the crowding of the lower ranks was most acute, the administration decided that unless there was a future opening for a young instructor he must seek a position elsewhere after a period of apprenticeship. An impartial committee of eight professors appointed in 1937 to study this matter arrived at essentially the same conclusion as the administration. Their report...
Paul Howard Douglas has spent almost half his 47 years teaching political economy and sociology at the University oi Chicago. Politics has long been his avocation. In 1932 he urged all non-conservatives to vote for Norman Thomas. Last year he was the principal speaker at an anti-Nazi mass meeting...
...John Anderson. Sir Walford Davies, Master of the King's Musick, led a singsong, urged the audience to sing loud because the rally was being broadcast "and probably Hitler will pick it up." When it came to singing the Lambeth Walk, he insisted on more umph on the "Oi...