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...this letter that served as the "cease firing" signal to the fortnight's affray. Obviously the President could not afford to fall out irrevocably with organized labor. Obviously organized labor neither dared nor desired to affront the man in the White House. So pious "Bill" Green summoned the reporters, told them: "Roosevelt is our hope and our strength. We want to go over to the White House and discuss all Labor problems and show our faith...
President Roosevelt, it was generally agreed, had made something of a masterstroke. He had negotiated Soviet recognition exactly in time to blanket with its headlines news of the then ugly farm strike. He had exacted some sort of religious guarantees from the Soviet Union, which on paper made pious U. S. citizens rejoice. And he had picked as his Ambassador to Moscow, keen, dynamic, ambitious William Christian Bullitt of Philadelphia...
Declaring that marriage is a "sacred ceremony," Massachusetts' pious Roman Catholic Governor James Michael Curley last fortnight forbade justices of the peace to perform that ceremony (TIME, Feb. 4). Last week the Chicago Church Federation (300 Protestant ministers) was agitated over civil marriage as performed in their city. They learned that in Marriage Court in the County Building a couple could be united in ten seconds, by paying $5 and replying affirmatively to the question "Do you take this woman (or man) whose right hand you hold, to be your lawful wedded wife (or husband)?" This ceremony was denounced...
...Ingres." Only cautious bang-haired Royal Cortissoz sounded a note of doubt in the general acclaim for George Caleb Bingham: "There is no distinction of style about his work. He was a mildly competent, mildly interesting practitioner, whose local legend may well be revived as a matter of pious courtesy...
...peace in that State, who hold their jobs at his pleasure, to cease & desist from performing marriage ceremonies, even for Protestants. The fact that certain J. P.'s are legally empowered to mumble a few words over any couple that pays $10 did not bother the pious Governor. He declared: "This sacred ceremony should be performed only by clergymen. If any marriages are performed by justices who come before me for renewal of their commissions, their applications will be turned down...