Word: pact
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hearing of a bill on militarism in public schools in Massachusetts at the State House in Boston this morning to register their protest. The Socialist Club has taken the stand that military training in all its forms seeks to idealize war, and is therefore inconsistent with the Kellogg Peace Pact...
...Holiness defined marriage as a union primarily for the propagation and education of children, a pact of mutual faith and honor, an inviolable, indissoluble sacrament between its partners. Fervently he assailed the moral laxities, the intellectual theories, which tend to demolish this ideal. Said he: ". . . As Christ's vicar upon earth and supreme shepherd and teacher we consider it our duty to raise our voice to keep the flock committed to our care from poisoned pastures. . . . For now, alas! not secretly or under cover, but openly, with all sense of shame put aside, now by word, again by writings...
...were the laws made to strengthen and confirm and elevate it, but by God, the author of nature, and by Christ our Lord by whom nature was redeemed, and hence these laws cannot be subject to any human decrees or to any contrary pact even of the spouses themselves." Toward the end, Pius XI urged: ". . . That in the State such economic and social methods should be set up as will enable every head of a family to earn as much as according to his station in life is necessary for himself, his wife, and for the rearing of his children...
...Industrial Democracy, the Harvard Socialist Club is circulating a petition protesting against military training in the colleges and universities of the country. The Socialist Club has taken the stand that military training in all its forms seeks to idealize war, and is therefore inconsistent with the Kellogg Peace Pact. This petition together with similar ones that are now being circulated in other colleges will be presented to Congress the latter part of January...
Some of the lines in Five Star Final are unbelievably bad. At one point two colored characters engage in such minstrel show chatter as: "What am a suicide pact?" And a bogus air enters during the scenes in which disillusioned reporters tell each other their troubles. The play has undeniable vitality, however, and provides a good deal of technical information on the inner workings of a gum-chewer sheetlet. Arthur Byron is masterful, makes completely credible the part of a tough, dogged newsman...