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Embassy in Mexico City to lead a Spanish Republican army against the Canary Islands. This cabal, Arriba snarled, was conceived "under the bloodless standard of the movies and with puerile disregard of the vigor of free peoples." Not published in Madrid were the prompt denials of General Miaja and U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Josephus Daniels...
Listeners are pretty crotchety about any fiddling with the Hour. When NBC, in response to a few quibbles, ordered Announcer Mitchell to abandon his sally about Chicago weather, the kickback was prompt and potent. Mitchell continues doggedly to begin the Farm Hour with: "It's a beautiful day in Chicago...
Once he inquired: "What aid to feminine beauty do you detest most?" Prompt was the answer of a frustrated male: "Bust developers made of sponge rubber." On another occasion he posed the question: "Did you ever kiss a man with a beard, and what reaction was there?" A girl replied: "Yes, when I was young and having my teeth straightened. Some of his whiskers caught in my wire brace, and he said 'ouch...
...rifles in holsters alongside the steering wheels, rumbled along rocky roads and through field and wood without traffic tie-ups. Supply functioned without a major hitch. Motorcycle dispatch riders, powdered with dust that turned their blue denim white, clattered into well-hidden command posts with battle messages that got prompt handling. In forward areas, tireless doughboys, in superb physical condition, moved forward, retired, swung down the roadsides with a minimum of stragglers...
Revolutionary for its times was Leo XIII's Rerum Novarum. Only five years previously the Holy See had itself forbidden Canada's Catholics to join the Knights of Labor (forerunner of the A.F. of L.), and it took the prompt and vigorous intervention of the late great James Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore to keep the Vatican from extending the ban to U.S. Catholics. In 1887 Dr. Edward McGlynn, pastor of Manhattan's biggest Catholic parish, had been excommunicated for supporting Henry George's single-tax proposals.* And ten years after Rerum Novamm's publication...