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That the lighter-than-air idea lives is due in part to a tanned, square-cut naval officer who believes in airships. Having served on or commanded two big dirigibles built for and lost by the U. S. Navy, Commander Charles E. Rosendahl continues to preach in interviews, books, Congressional testimony that helium-filled airships are safe, efficient transports, scouting craft, airplane carriers...
...equally divided between the Orthodox and Uniat Churches, which have been so friendly that the Uniat Primate is also a leader of the Orthodox faithful. The Primate, Count Andrey Sheptytsky, Arch bishop of Lwow, is almost seven feet tall, but paralyzed in arms and legs so that he cannot preach. Instead he makes phono graph records of his pronouncements, ships them throughout the Ukraine...
When we feel doubts as to the essential goodness and superiority of government by the people, we can revitalize our faith by turning to Thomas Mann, outcast of fascism, prophet of democracy, who has come to its home to preach his holy belief in the latter. In deep, organic tones, he voices his faith in the inevitability of democracy. So long as man believes in his own dignity and in a sense of justice, democracy is necessary. Trite and hackneyed phrases these, but such things assume a new meaning by their very absence...
...State vacillation are the Southern regionalists: Poets Allen Tate. John Crowe Ransom, Donald Davidson. Novelists Caroline Gordon (Mrs. Allen Tate). John Peale Bishop, et al., from the divided States of Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia. Subtle, urbane and inexhaustibly energetic, they straddle the question of the South's inevitable industrialization, preach a Southern culture modeled on pre-Civil War agrarianism...
...Labor Front into which 20,500,000 Ger man workers have been mustered. Keynoted Orator Ley last week as 1,500,000 Nazis began heading toward the Parteitag: "If there is a Paradise, I feel sure it cannot be more beautiful than National Socialist Germany! . . . There are persons who preach to a snickering audience that: 'Faith moves Mountains.' This is said to have happened 2,000 years ago. Now National Socialism has moved a whole nation! . . . Our life is one of work and joy, and Germany is not a vale of tears." Getting down to cases and European...