Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When he is standing for office, the week before election is a frantic period for any President. In off-years when he is not standing for office, that week is full of troublesome chores. Last week with his mind already on this winter's problems-including railroad legislation, national defense, housing (see p. 18)-Franklin Roosevelt did his big political chore to help elect Democrats who may assist him in carrying out his programs...
...past eight months' experience in building may well be the beginning of a new cycle for construction in the United States-a period that will be greater and longer in building activity than we have ever seen before." So said President Samuel M. Waters of the Mortgage Bankers' Association at a Texas convention last week...
...Over a period of nearly 20 years the Antwerp Bell Telephone Co. alternately hired & fired Leo Frenssen, an able telephonic technician but about as dependable as the late Count Leo Tolstoi, whom he mystically resembles. Once Leo Frenssen was an enrolled member of the Belgian Communist Party. He resigned with the declaration: "I am convinced that Communism is now the wrong theory-I am for peace, and I believe that every conflict can be settled peaceably if some imagination is used...
Most charming piece: Self-Portrait with Heart, Frida's record of a period of unhappiness with Diego, showing her with tears on her cheeks, a ferrule sticking through the hole in her body where her heart was, two tiny imps playing seesaw on the ferrule. Political bit: a full-length portrait of Frida holding a scroll inscribed: "To Leon Trotsky, with all love, I dedicate this painting, 7 November...
Last week a fellow priest went to bat against the authenticity of the Protocols and, inferentially, against Jew-Baiter Coughlin. He was Rev. Michael Joseph ("Mike") Ahern, jovial, witty Jesuit, head of the geology department at Weston College near Boston. On his Sunday radio Catholic Truth Period, Father Ahern drew upon European Catholic sources to demolish the Protocols...