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Last week it broke out like a rash. It broke out in just that portion of Chicago's anatomy where it might have been expected: the portion homologous to that area of the State of Washington which has been irritated by the presence of a nonindigenous intelligence?the politico-educational system...
Last week a smallish, modest man, with shaven head, oval, slightly pock-marked face, long, pointed, waxed mustaches, promenaded from his Lhasa villa to the Potala, most magnificent of palaces. This was the Grand Lama himself, famed politico-religious absolute primate of Buddha. Above him, to the topmost of its gold-vermilion finials, now caught by the last reflected glow of the sunken sun, soared 436 feet in air his ancient palace, crowning a green-clad mountain. The Grand Lama passed within...
...Actually the "conservative" party of republican Austria. From this misnomer arises the paradox presented by Chancellor Seipel when, though a Socialist, he dons ecclesiastical robes and celebrates mass as the politico-religious hero of Austrian Catholics...
...jails. Then religion- how the Mahatma's deep oriental mysticism had swayed India! But which religion should he be asked to expound? Hinduism? Buddhism? Mohammedanism ? Back trooped the brown-skinned pupils and delivered their choice. Forthwith last week Mahatma Gandhi, austere ascetic, Tolstoy disciple, famed Indian politico-spiritual leader, began to teach of Jesus, of the Apostles, of the mysterious Holy Trinity, of twenty centuries of ecclesiastical superstructure. They were glad when the Mahatma spoke of Jesus, but when his thin reedy voice told a harrowing tale of Christianity they were...
Churchill. The approach of the crisis synchronized with the great annual politico-business event of the British Government?the presentation of the budget to the House of Commons by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Winston Churchill stepped up manfully to meet his great occasion...