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Since 1907 U. S. Catholics have been seeking the canonization of Mother Seton, and their hopes are high that the Vatican will make her the first U. S.-born saint.* Mother Seton founded the Catholic parochial school system and the Sisters of Charity in the U. S. Today, 8,911 nuns of her order, eight colleges, 160 high schools and academies, 447 parochial elementary schools and many a hospital and asylum are her monuments. Last week, Rev. Leonard Feeney, poet and associate editor of the Jesuit weekly, America, argued her claims to sainthood in an eulogistic, lyrical biography.† Cried...
Most observers agree that the minority Sudetens have a legitimate grievance. In 1920 the horseshoe mountainous strip was deliberately added to the new fish-shaped State by the Allied peacemakers by the Treaty of Saint-Germain, in order to set up a natural fortification barrier against Germany. This gave the new Czechoslovak State a population 22% German. The Sudetens lost their German and Austrian markets. Some Sudeten factories shut down, others were taken over by Czechs. Although the Sudetens form almost 100% blocs in some sections, Czech police and local officials were appointed to administer their affairs. Czech workers gradually...
...Saint in New York (RKO Radio) is the first cinemogrification of an airy young crime-fiction character, Simon Templar, alias "The Saint." The Saint (Louis Hayward) invades Manhattan, flushes and exterminates a racketeer mob from punk to big shot, with invaluable fingerwork by a darkling moll (Kay Sutton...
Creator of "The Saint," 31-year-old British Author Leslie Charteris, considered by many the successor to the late Edgar Wallace, has been turning out crime fiction by the yard for the last decade, is credited with 1,000,000 readers. In cinema, despite neat melodramatic treatment, his pulpy improbabilities need glossing over, his lithograph Saint a retouching...
...quoting the Pope on p. 14 of TIME, May 2, can it be possible that the editors of TIME did not know that the quotation referred to the newly canonized saint, Salvador da Horta, and not to Francisco Franco? Is it accurate reporting to use that quotation, as you did, without explanation...