Word: reigning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...perceptibly changed. If Jim Farley should run for President next year, the inevitable whispering about the Pope-in-the-White-House would more likely help than hurt him. This is the outward, political aspect of an inner, social change which Catholicism underwent in the U. S. during the reign of Achille Ratti. The country is still Protestant, but amid the deepening class cleavages of today, the Roman Catholic Church is recognized as a Gibraltar of conservatism, and respect for the constancy of its moral values has revived...
Caesar v. God. Pius XI was "the Pope of Missions." He was also a "Pope of Saints," canonizing during his reign some of the most popular saints of modern times: St. Therese, St. Bernadette of Lourdes, St. Giovanni Bosco (a social service worker who had once been his friend), England's St. Thomas More and St. John Fisher, North America's eight Martyrs. Yet the greatness of Pius XI derived less from his spiritual labors for the Kingdom of God than from his long, uncompromising battle against the pretensions of modern Caesars...
...people of the islands, Lifting their eyes to the adorning sun, All await the reign of peace...
Before the reign of Hitler there were 50,000 physicians in Germany, of whom 6,500 were Jewish or part-Jewish. Since 1933 "non-Aryan" doctors have been gradually pushed out of practice. Crowning blow came last October, when licenses of all Jewish physicians were revoked, and only a few special temporary permits were granted for practice in Jewish communities. Although Germany now faces a shortage of trained physicians and has been compelled to reduce the period of medical education by two full years, more than one-half of the ostracized Jewish physicians still remain in Germany, helpless and impoverished...
Says one of the old books:* "The music of a well-ordered reign is peaceable and conducive to happiness; such a government is harmonious. The music of a reign of disorder is spiteful and conducive to anger; such a government is seditious. The music of a ruined kingdom is dismal and brings care; such a nation is mournful...