Word: public
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When he returned from Rome in 1924 with a red hat, 50,000 Catholics paraded to welcome' him. And on each of two later occasions-an international Eucharistic Congress in 1926, a celebration in 1034 of his 25th anniversary as bishop-1,000,000 people joined him in public acts of devotion...
...make-whether or not to cancel his speech. In a stroke of astute churchmanship, he resolved to deliver it as Cardinal Mundelein's political and ecclesiastical testament, a summing up of the liberal views which had made the Cardinal a personal friend of President Roosevelt and a public friend of the New Deal...
...state of well-nigh total collapse. . . . Modern man has returned ... to the jungle. . . . The great philosophers, men of letters and men of science v.ho dominated the thought ... of the past 200 years are no longer recognized or ever referred to as offering guidance for conduct and for public policy...
...Palmer's book will cause no Flagstads to sprout. But its canny appraisal of the ins & outs of popular song-singing may well make it the aspiring mike-moaner's Bible. Do you want to make big money singing songs for the U. S. radio and cinema public? Then stay away from highbrow vocal teachers, never mind your high C ("Many girls have made fortunes without ever coming within an octave of it"). Concentrate on naturalness and intimacy. Learn how to act at auditions, how to win fans and influence producers...
...hobbies, no outside interests but his work. But Frank Gavin, who was G. N.'s executive V. P., knows all about his road from operations to finance. Wise to what is going on in U. S. railroading, he says the roads had better justify their existence as public servants or else...