Word: rising
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...progress of Chicago's Prince of the Church (who, like all Cardinals, ranked as a prince of the blood while in Italy) gave rise to reports that he and President Roosevelt had arrived at an agreement for the resumption of diplomatic relations between the U. S. and the Holy See.* Observers pointed to a handsome new building, arising on Washington's "Embassy Row," for the Catholic Apostolic Delegation (whose function is purely ecclesiastical). Such reports have been current before-when Postmaster General Farley visited the Pope in 1936 and when Cardinal Pacelli, Papal Secretary of State, visited...
Nobody was surprised that markets should shoot off some fireworks after the first notable Republican success in eight years. But capitalistic exuberance was not solely responsible. Last week's market rise began before the voting, was stimulated by good business news on every side. Samples...
...London the closing session of the House of Commons, which was about to rise and reconvene for a new session with the Speech from the Throne on November 8, last week brimmed with historic interest. The Prime Minister asked a vote of confidence on his foreign policy to date and won it, 345-to-138, after plainly intimating to the House that what must now be expected is an almost unlimited extension of Japanese influence in East Asia and of German influence in East Europe. The shades of British Imperialists from Good Queen Bess to Rudyard Kipling must have paled...
Modern cathedrals, dependent for their growth on donations from the pious, rise slowly-though nothing like as slowly as the cathedrals of the Middle Ages. Sometimes their upthrust is accelerated when a rich man dies, leaves a legacy. San Francisco's Grace Cathedral (Episcopal), building since 1910 on Nob Hill, has had a different course. For the past year its staff has watched, with anxious eyes, the state of health of a doddering, 85-year-old retired dentist named Dr. Nathaniel Coulson. To the Cathedral's building fund, pious Dr. Coulson has assigned the income of no less...
...people in the second of three lectures he is giving under the aegis of Radcliffe on "The Crisis in Political Philosophy," the one-time Harvard faculty member cautioned his audience to be wary of pinning its faith on pure reason, a major premise of liberal philosophy, because it gives rise to the question, "Whose reason...