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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...absurd spectacle is presented of a Democratic congressman defending the President from reckless threats of impeachment, uttered by a Republican. Meanwhile preparations for relief measures during the winter go by the board. It is doubtful if the spectacle enhances the prestige of "the greatest legislative body since the Roman Senate." Appeals to the efficiency of dictatorships, though superficial, indicate a pressing need for governmental reform...
Colorful and jolly as are most Roman Catholic festivals in Latin countries, they might have seemed sedate beside one which began last week at the Basilica of Guadalupe near Mexico City. There were noise, dancing, eating & drinking. From all parts of Mexico and Latin America had come 50,000 pilgrims. Ultimately, 100,000 were expected. Indians, mestizos, pure-blooded aristocrats-every class except government (antireligious) officials -were present to do honor to Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe, patron saint of Mexico. With smashing crescendo of clanging bells, electric illuminations, masses, there will be celebrated this week the Feast of Our Lady...
Father Talbot, an associate editor of America (Jesuit weekly), knew that the Talbots are an ancient and illustrious Irish family, with both Roman Catholic and Protestant branches. But he had not heard of Matt Talbot. He made inquiries. To his amazement he discovered that Matt Talbot, a laborer, dead less than a year, had already acquired a reputation for almost unearthly piety. His biography by Sir Joseph Aloysius Glynn had been translated into a dozen languages, sold 60,000 copies. Known first to Dublin, then to the Catholic world, Matt Talbot's life was increasingly publicized until last week...
...Provincial Government of the Roman Republic," Prof. Ferguson, Sever...
...manners since the virginal days of 1912 are the ones that have learned to trim their sails, both typographically and editorially. Some, like "Vanity Fair," have kept pace gracefully and insensibly; others, like the "Forum," pied the old type and came forth clad in a cover of boiler-room Roman the better to face hard facts. In every case, the age has made the magazine not the magazine the age. For with the passing of personal journalism and the great tradition of William Lloyd Garrison and Horace Greeley, the American press lost its crusading temper. Editors took it as their...