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...approval for President Roosevelt's monetary program. He had also stepped on some very important Catholic toes. Now, still parrying newshawks' questions, he swung aboard his train just as it pulled out, settled down for the journey back to Detroit and Royal Oak, Mich, where from his Shrine of the Little Flower he broadcasts Sundays to an estimated...
...Moines. Next day General Johnson sped to Des Moines, addressed 4,000 at the Shrine Auditorium. "To agriculture the Recovery Administration gave everything," he declared. "There is authority to do everything that ever has been suggested to raise farm prices and if none of the indirect methods work, there is authority to tax the whole public and turn the proceeds over to agriculture to make up for any lag in parity of prices...
...first pic ture, a Degas racing scene, for a few francs. Soon he made friends with the artist, became intimate with the entire Impressionist circle. Next step was to give up his practice and open in the Rue Laffitte a tiny art shop that has become a legendary shrine for art students. Dealer Vollard could not compete in the open market with Dealer Durand-Ruel, but in those days "Fifi'' Vollard, as the Impressionists called him, was more fun. He never tried to tell them what to paint or how to paint, gratefully accepted any canvas they would...
...most of them churchmen who reached the apostolic succession after lengthy, inconspicuous service. Last week Rome made a bishop of a man of only 46 because it approved his work as pedagog during the past decade. In Washington some 2,000 people crowded into the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception on the campus of Catholic University of America, to see the consecration of its rector, Most Rev. James Hugh Ryan, as Titular Bishop of Modra...
...only because of its own intrinsic beauty and value, but because of the very question of its provenance. At the time of its presentation to the Museum, the window was said to have come from Canterbury Cathedral and was thought to represent Thomas Becket healing pilgrims at a shrine. It was suggested at that time that the glass was removed from Canterbury Cathedral about 200 years ago, the supposition being that the man in charge of the glass at that time was more interested in the new style of eighteenth century glass than...