Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Accident it may have been that the President's callers last week included Roman Catholic Bishop James Ryan of Omaha and Rev. Maurice Sheehy of Catholic University; that he appointed Roman Catholic Frank Murphy, Governor-reject of Michigan, to be his Attorney General (see col. 3); that the Pan-American Conference at Lima, so largely the creature of Franklin Roosevelt and Secretary Hull, was praised last week by L'Osservatore Romano, the Pope's daily, after the totalitarian press had belittled it. The significance of these things, planned or unplanned, was that events appeared to be rapidly...
...another quirk of fate, Franklin Roosevelt's brother-in-law, Gracie Hall Roosevelt, father of last week's White House debutante (see p. 17), was chosen by Mayor Frank Murphy to be his comptroller...
President add Mrs. Conant will be at home and glad to see all students of the University at the President's house, 17 Quincy Street on Sunday afternoon, January a from four to six o'clock...
Greville had several love affairs and one illegitimate child, but compared with Pepys, Bachelor Greville was a veritable monk. It is easy to see why his love affairs were few and brief. After keeping a beautiful, well-mannered mistress at Lord Wharncliffe's villa for seven weeks ("Henry de Roos, who is the grand purveyor of women to all his friends, gave her to me"), 35-year-old Greville bitterly philosophizes that on account of her he has read no more than a dozen heavy volumes, doubts "if ever I shall take one to live with me again...
...Coulton says that he writes, and other people read, history because it is fascinating to see how it repeats itself with a difference - how man's never-changing nature reacts to his ever-changing environment. Some of the evidence for his theory: the description of how a fascist Church thumbscrewed and burned its subjects without even a semblance of justice (there is no recorded case of not guilty under the Inquisition) for refusing to swear undivided allegiance ; how Edward I expelled the Jews from England in 1290, taking their houses, their money, some times (accidentally) their lives. For tile...