Word: recentes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stated in an item in TIME of Nov. 30 that I am one of those "responsible" for the editorial policy of the Post-Dispatch in the recent campaign. This is not true. While I do not think the nature of my connection with the paper is of public interest, anyone pretending to write about St. Louis newspapers from the inside should know that my work has always been confined to the news and my responsibilities as well...
...Archbishop's motive had to do with a feature of the Coronation service scarcely noticed by laymen who suppose that the whole point of a coronation must be that somebody is crowned. There have been British coronations for 1,000 years and until comparatively recent generations the whole emphasis was on the "anointing" of the King, as a newly created bishop is anointed-thus making him a persona mixta or "person of mixed nature," part layman, part priest. Queen Victoria was of the opinion that she was the head of the Church of England, virtually a female Pope. Although...
...close of the party, clothing collected by the Committee in their recent canvass of the Yard dormitories was distributed to the children...
...attacks on the national chairman have come almost entirely from Representative Fish, whose past record makes his charges look like an about face and cheap opportunism. Hamilton has more energy and organizing ability than any other recent chairman. His speeches were forceful, clear, and had the necessary punch to carry a point. Unless some dark horse, with superhuman ability, should make his appearance, the Republicans should be grateful for the aggressive leadership of John Hamilton...
...recent flagrant example in the French department reveals an absolute lack of attention to the problem of selecting texts. The outside reading books in French A are picked from a group of little pamphlets which come in four series, each more difficult than the last, and each series, contains four books. Since French A is the elementary course, its outside reading was supposed to come from rather easy books, so the authorities picked a book listed as "Grade I", without bothering to notice that it was "Grade J" in the fourth and most difficult series...