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...enter the pulpit, "Dan" Poling was 51, just beginning to grey. Since he is no Baptist, the congregation of Grace Temple expected him to make less use of their 60-foot marble immersion tank where white carnations are kept floating during baptismal services. Dr. Poling will probably omit flowers, allow a microphone to overshadow the tank...
Italy. To this challenge Benito Mussolini replied by having the Italian Press omit all portions of the speech fitting his Dictatorship, but Pope Pius XI, accustomed to having his slippered foot kissed by dignitaries, supplied the full text to Italians by displaying it verbatim in the Papal news-organ, Osservatore Romano. The official Italian news agency dispatch from Washington, printed by most Italian news-organs, unemotionally recorded: "Mr. Roosevelt pointed out that the world's desire for peace is blocked by only 10 or 15% of the total population of the world and did not hide his pessimism over...
...from 121 to 54 and from 50 to 17. But in those hymns retained are to be found Methodism's "whole evangelical experience, from the meltings of a penitent to the rapture of consecration." Once the commission was reported ready to delete numerous "distasteful"' hymns. It did omit Isaac Watts...
Activist Starace created more dismay by abruptly ordering all prefects of provinces, mayors of municipalities and presidents of charitable institutions to omit from their necessarily stereotyped public orations the following time-honored phrases...
...overflow audience, he spoke to a comfortably filled house. He committed the fatal dramatic error of allowing his audience to stare at him for two hours while preliminary speakers exhausted them and he himself grew more nervous by the minute. When his time finally came he was obliged to omit all but a fraction of his prepared address. He offered no program of organization...