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...celebrate the end of his first year in office President Roosevelt went to a vesper service in Washington Cathedral at which Bishop Freeman preached a New Deal sermon deploring the "moral laxity" of recent years. In the evening the President and Mrs. Roosevelt attended a dinner at the Mayflower Hotel given jointly by all members of the Cabinet, in lieu of ten separate dinners held in other years. All ten members of the Cabinet, nine of their spouses (only absent spouse: Paul Wilson, husband of Madam Secretary Perkins), the Vice President, the Speaker, the Budget Director, Mrs. Curtis Dall, Gracie...
...windows. A long table, two incredibly battered desks, a telephone booth and a chipped enamel cuspidor make up its office equipment. Around the walls are photographs of unidentified prizefighters and film actresses, a framed obituary of Variety's late Slangster Jack Conway, a yellowed clipping of a newspaper sermon entitled "Success," a picture of a nude dancer with a large ostrich-plume fan, inscribed: ''To the reporters of West Side Court, gratefully and sincerely, Sally Rand...
Like Senator Thomas, he is planning for the next phase of the fight. In his New Year's Eve radio sermon he declared: "There is starvation because what little gold there is is in the hands of a few who mumble about the sacredness of man-made contracts in defiance of God-made obligations. Congress must decide once and for all whether Christ was a poet and idealist when He enunciated 'Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.' I still believe in His practicability...
...bimetallism, but with differences perhaps more notable than its likeness to its relative). And the same day that Senator Thomas was revealing to the Press a draft of a bill for substituting gold certificates for the gold reserve of the Federal Reserve Banks, the Father in his radio sermon was belaboring the Federal Reserve for not yet having turned over its gold to the Treasury (an act which the Treasury has not yet requested). Father Coughlin demanded it in the name of "120,000,000 inarticulate American taxpayers." Said he: "The American citizenry was crucified on Good Friday, 1917 between...
...grey, watery-eyed. Evangelism on what he calls "the kerosene circuit'' had left its stamp on him. So had heart disease. For his opener in Calvary Baptist Church he drew an oldish crowd of 2,175. His sermon was long, rambling. There were few antics on the platform, fewer "Amens" from the congregation. After wards only six people went forward to shake hands with...