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...first class" miracle involving growth of new bone tissue. Typical "second class" cures reported from the Oratory are restoration of sight lost from atrophied optic nerves, healing of tuberculosis, cancer, gangrene, paralysis, rheumatism. Now 89, frail, wrinkled Brother Andre is still officially no more than "caretaker" of the shrine. To visitors who seek him out as they did last week he invariably says...
...Huey Long-but this country was never under a greater menace. ... It is somebody time for somebody to get up on his hind legs and howl !" Up on his hind legs was precisely where General Johnson got and howl he did at the radio pastor of Detroit's Shrine of the Little Flower: "While I do not for a moment compare Father Coughlin with Talleyrand, it is no exaggeration to say that, through the doorway of his priestly office, covered in his designs by the sanctity of the robe he wears. Father Coughlin, by the cheap strategy of appealing...
...Prussia, Commander of Police, Head Forester and Chief Game Warden and Master of the Hunt in Prussia, Director General of the State Theatres; to blonde, buxom Emmi Sonnemann, 35, whom he appointed "Prussian State Actress" during his courtship. Said he: "My best man will be Adolf Hitler." The shrine erected by General Göring to his late first wife, a Swedish Baroness, is a point of pilgrimage for the Nazi League of German Girls. During the War Goring was an authentic national hero, succeeded the late, great Baron Manfred von Richthofen as commander of his death-dealing "Flying Circus...
...Roosevelt and the pastor of Detroit's Shrine of the Little Flower drew different conclusions as to the worth of the Roosevelt Administration at the halfway mark. "The big achievement of the last two years is the great change in the thinking of the country,'' declared Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt. ''I also think that in spite of criticism the administration of relief has been a great achievement." Included in the list of what she considered her husband's accomplishments: the Banking Bill, Tennessee Valley Authority ("a decided accomplishment"), CCC ("a grand thing"), subsistence homesteads...
...country, men and women, young and old, that they are afraid to join the World Court? I cannot believe it. ... I beg of you to let your representatives in Congress know at once." But above them all, for the second time that day, sounded the great voice from the Shrine of the Little Flower: "If you want to keep peace in America, keep clear of the League Court. I beg you in the name of the God of Peace and Justice to wire your Senator in Washington this simple, vital message...