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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...riding in an open car (without radio), stopping to exchange small talk with a U. S. Army officer at the gateway to Fort Lewis near Tacoma. Last week, in Chicago, Franklin Roosevelt drove through cheering lines of thousands of Chicagoans to see his old friend, Chicago's top Roman Catholic, George Cardinal Mundelein. Dressed in a black cassock, scarlet mantle and scarlet skullcap, the Cardinal met the President at the door of his gloomy mansion across from Lincoln Park. After a chat in the archiepiscopal throne room, he and the Cardinal sat down to a private snack of fried...
Ceramics. Sanctiora auro, certe innocentiora* wrote Roman Pliny of the ceramic statues of the Etruscans. Far from sacred but often fine were the 142 examples of U. S. ceramic art with which the Whitney Museum opened its season this week. Assembled last year by the Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts for showings in Denmark, Sweden, Finland and England, the collection included sculptures in terra cotta and enamel by the artists who have revived ceramics as a fine art in the U. S.-Waylande Gregory of Metuchen, N. J., Henry Varnum Poor of New York, Cleveland's Russell Barnett Aitken...
...really interested in worldwide threats to our religious institutions and to our freedom of thought, we can at present find alarming examples of religious persecution in Nazi Germany," the petitioners say. "In Germany to our amazement, persecution of Jews, Roman Catholics, and Protestants has been bitter and persistent...
...word pastoral letter last month, the Roman Catholic hierarchy of Spain detailed the reasons why they hope the Rightists will win the Civil War (TIME, Sept. 13). To Spain's Bishops this week was addressed an open letter which few of them would very likely ever see. It was signed by 150 U. S. Protestant churchmen and pedagogs, men of the calibre of Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, John Dewey, Dr. Daniel Alfred Poling, Editor Guy Emery Shipler of the Churchman, Methodist Bishop James Chamberlain Baker of San Francisco, President William Allan Neilson of Smith College. Agitated...
...foreknowledge might guide a woman's conduct in case she did not want to have a baby. Professor Burr immediately denied that his "vacuum tube microvoltmetre for the measurement of bioelectric phenomena" provided any such useful domestic data. Disappointed were many good citizens-not all of whom were Roman Catholics-who prefer to practice birth control by periodic abstinence rather than by mechanical or chemical means. Last week Dr. Burr cheered such folk by effectively contradicting his denial. Stated he in Science: "The use of the Burr-Lane-Nimms technique enables one to determine with certainty and accuracy...