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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fellow, Knight of Pythias, Woodman and Elk, and Mayor Richard Lee Metcalfe of Omaha, onetime editorial aide and good friend of the late arch-Protestant William Jennings Bryan, uttered the official welcome; Ak-Sar-Ben (Nebraska spelled backwards) coliseum provided a meeting place?when last week some 5,000 Roman Catholic archbishops, bishops, monsignori, priests and some 25,000 laymen assembled at Omaha for the first National Eucharistic Congress in 19 years. It was the greatest concourse of U. S. Catholics since the International Eucharistic Congress at Chicago four years...
...Scaeattae are interesting in being more or less degenerate copies of Roman coins. Three of them show an animal form similar to a porcupine, in reality a conventionalization of the wolf and twins design found on Roman coins. This series dates from sometime before 500 A. D. until a little after...
...baseball games. He is outside Washington's smart society. Impartial Senate observers rate him thus: an oratorical genius, an eccentric, no great legislator. An oldtime politician whose personal magnetism has overridden his legislative deficiencies, brought him, colorful, to a drab modern Congress. He bolted, bated Democratic supporters of Roman Catholic Alfred Emanuel Smith in 1928, stumped for President Hoover, but did not vote for him. This year regular Alabama Democrats barred him from their primary. "Jeffersonian (anti-Smith) Democrats" nomi- nated him to succeed himself on an independent ticket in the November elections...
...summers at artistic MacDowell Colony (Petersboro, N. H.) where he writes most of his poetry. Shy, scholarly, academic, he is a 32nd degree bachelor, is famed as most reticent, most elusive, least known U. S. man of letters. Other books: Captain Craig, The Alan Against the Sky, Merlin, Lancelot, Roman Bartholow, The Man Who Died Twice, Tristram, Calender's House, Dionysus in Doubt...
Prime Minister Count Bethlen, absent at Geneva, escaped the ructions. Scape goat was Dr. Joseph Vass, 53, Minister for Social Welfare & Labor, and acting Prime Minister. He was a Roman Catholic Monsignor, formerly professor of theology at the University of Budapest before he entered politics ten years ago as a leader of the Christian National Party. He was unaccustomed to riotous conduct. Last week's disturbances caused his death, from heart failure...