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...Kenny Delmar, Parker Fennelly, Minerva Pious and Peter Donald are the radio actors who play all but one of these characters in "Allen's Alley...
...Pious Mayor Jijén feels that for years Ecuador was ruined by Liberal politicians bent on weakening the church, secularizing the schools, legalizing divorce. Then, one day in 1924, "I suddenly realized that the evil was not in our neighbor's house but our own." He entered politics. Since then he has bossed Ecuador's Conservatives. "The country needs order," he says, "with a certain directed liberty...
Presbyterian Burger does not go in for hellfire or glory-shouting, and he does his best to steer clear of pious advice. His main job, as he sees it, is to provide an opportunity for worship to men who are isolated for months at a time. He also tries to be a good listener to tales of woe about women, money and liquor...
...deadly, premeditated dullness of financial ads last week brought scornful shouts from two premeditating wits. In an address before the New York Financial Advertisers Association, Bernice Fitz-Gibbon, ad boss of Gimbel Bros., snapped that it was time banks stopped such "pious pronouncements" as these: "a great institution founded on the cornerstone of service and courtesy"; "the challenge of a new era demands the ultimate in achievement." Said she: "One bank says 'You are invited to use the name of this bank on your checks. It is a symbol of strength and security.' What a lot of malarkey...
Next week, with no banquets, no pious speeches, no coast-to-coast hookups, the organization will observe its 30th anniversary. All Friends in the U.S. will be asked to pray and meditate in silence upon the responsibilities of the American Friends Service Committee...