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...were noticeable around Mutual. MBS, theoretically a non-profit-making organization which lacks any real central executive, and functions in fact as a glorified switchboard (stations pay wire charges themselves), is in position to meet the rigorous new network limitations imposed by FCC. If, as the decrees in effect ordain, all stations are made mutual, and any station may buy any station's programs, MBS will be on a par with the other chains...
Meanwhile the waiting desk in the White House piled up. Soon the President must, however reluctantly, toughen up Government defense relations with labor. He must recommend greatly increased taxes. He must ordain, for the first time, the first U. S. sacrifices. He must decide how far to go in feeding Europe's noncombatants. He must fit unemployment and agricultural relief plans into the defense program...
...where the theory of evolution was first expounded from a U. S. pulpit, the first Woman's Rights Convention met in 1848, and interfaith services were pioneered. Last week the First Unitarian Congregation set what it believed was another precedent: it invited two rabbis to help ordain Member James Ziglar Hanner to the Unitarian ministry, closed the ordination service with the medieval Hebrew hymn Yigdal, sung in English...
...Christian churches of the U. S., feminists give much credit for the emancipation of U. S. women. Yet in church matters women are still denied equality with men. A few large churches* ordain women as ministers, but few women ever get important appointments as pastors...
...saints is to be staked out through the New York Stock Exchange as a Federal project. . . . Let us patrol well our 20th-century business highway! Let us crucify the thieves, as Pontius Pilate would have done had he been attending to his job. But do not ordain that everyone moving along on his lawful occasions shall conform his pace to that of the slowest and worst-equipped blunderer...