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...Phillips prayed only four times in the Senate. Reason: by Senate rule he prayed only on legislative days; and (because the Senate often recesses without adjourning) one legislative day sometimes went on for weeks. Last week, overjoyed by a resolution introduced by West Virginia's hard-bitten old politico, Senator Neely, and passed unanimously, Chaplain Phillips was, according to its terms, praying every working...
...first election, Paul M. Kerins '41, Sophomore Government student who is running for the Brookline School Committee, yesterday wound up his two month-campaign in a blare of glory as a sound truck hymued his praises all day in the streets of Brookline, and politico Kerins himself addressed two rallies...
...upper and middle classes, by people who believe that God is a capitalist. Although many churchmen have accustomed their congregations to socially radical words from the pulpit, most parsons pipe the tunes which businessmen call. Last week in a Chicago suburb (Barrington, Ill.) there was a prodigious politico-religious piping. Occasion: "The Barrington Town Warming Plan ... a combination of the early American town meeting and the old time religious revival." Tune-caller: Barrington's biggest business, Jewel Tea Co., Inc., makers of tea, coffee and groceries, and benevolently paternalistic employer of 300 of the town...
...political gesture against Japan, "most dangerous." Summoned to meet at Peking last week were the heads of the puppet Governments of Peking and Nanking and the "provisional" Governments of Hankow and Canton. One of the purposes of the meeting was to teach the puppets a politico-economic trick that has already been successfully employed by Japan in Manchukuo. Japan would formulate, the puppets promulgate, trade rules discriminating against other nations. Thus Japan will be able to pretend that she has not slammed the open door in China...
...Idria's labor policy would never bag Labor votes for Politico Hoover. About 125 men (mostly Spaniards) work in the ground and in two plants where quicksilver is distilled from cinnabar ore. They toil seven days a week (with pay for overtime), get around $4 a day. live in hovels, pay 20? a pack for cigarets at a company store. Recently they raised a fund for Loyalist Spain, then split over disposition of the money. One group called in C. I. O. organizers, who last week called them out on strike for union recognition. Brother Theodore and associates declined...