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...unlooked-for bit of spleen was vented by the Typographical Union, which denounced Father Charles Edward Coughlin of Detroit, radio preacher, for building his Shrine of the Little Flower with non-union labor, printing his tracts in non-union plants, advocating the open shop. The typographers asked the Federation "to find him no longer entitled to financial support from any trade unionist...
...Meiji would know. Firm in this conviction a spruce file of puzzled Japanese Army officers rode out from Tokyo one dawn last week to a pungent park of pine and camphor trees. They crossed a gurgling brook, entered a spotlessly clean quadrangle and faced with awe the Meiji Shrine, an unpainted wooden building, austere, impressive and, to Japanese, sublime...
...Reluctant to take the responsibility of making up their own minds they turned with relief to the August Spirit of the Meiji Emperor (1868-1912). He gave Japan her Constitution. In his long, glorious reign the Empire sprang from medieval lethargy to modern might. After praying at the Meiji Shrine last week the officers emerged no longer perplexed...
...most disappointed men in Detroit last week were rambunctious Senator James Couzens and Father Charles Edward Coughlin, inflation-minded radio-priest of the Shrine of the Little Flower. Judge Keidan had given them several days each to damn the bankers for a pack of thieves. They had been almost the only witnesses who had not blamed the U. S. Government, Senator Couzens or Father Coughlin for the banking fiasco. And they both craved another chance to testify. Senator Couzens claimed he had been "prevented" from offering sensational evidence but declaimed: "While I may be denied a forum...
...Tyrol. Bearded, barrel-chested Tyrolean Patriot Andreas Hofer, most faithful friend of the House of Habsburg, captured Innsbruck twice from French and Bavarian troops during the Napoleonic wars, was captured by Italian troops and executed at Mantua in 1810 under Napoleon's orders. His tomb is a shrine for Austrian patriotism. From the Tyrol too comes Franz Hofer, an Austrian Nazi. No friend of the Habsburgs, eager to see his country absorbed by Ger- many, Nazi Hofer unwittingly added 8,000 men to the little Austrian Army, and brought the active support of France and Britain to the struggling...