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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Peace Hospital," inside the Communist lines, were diverted to the Nationalists. Flour supplied free by UNRRA was being sold far above the average Chinese's means. UNRRA Ford trucks were selling at $3,750 (gold). The Chinese people, starving almost within the dreamlike sight of rich rice and yellow wheat, hardly protested: they were too accustomed to inefficiency and graft. Nevertheless, dawning anger at their plight came like thunder out of China last week. Over 200 local UNRRA officials sent a cable to their boss in Washington: "We have come from many places in the world [to make] UNRRA...
...Episcopal Joint Commission on Approaches to Unity had labored on a merger plan. It brought forth not one document, but two. The majority report set up a basis for the proposed merger. The minority report deplored the proposal: ". . . We cannot believe that it is right in the sight of God and in loyalty to His Church to ask the Church to study . . . what we are profoundly convinced is repugnant to the mind of Christ." One member, the Rt. Rev. G. Ashton Oldham, bishop of Albany, N.Y., signed neither report...
...Those fellows are good friends of mine and have been very kindly to me in the past about some things and I want to help them if I could." (When General Campbell said he had, as usual, made a recorded transcript of the talk, other worried Congressmen lost sight of the investigation completely, began a furious hue-& -cry about "wire-tapping...
Rose said that he would also offer his Pitching Horseshoes free to 100 U.S. papers. He wanted no formal commitments, so he could quit when he got tired of it. But he was obviously nursing a journalistic itch. Wrote he: "The sight of your own words in type is like having your back scratched-and when you get a byline-Rita Hayworth is doing the scratching...
...Cabrini-founded Columbus Hospital in Manhattan accidentally washed out the eyes of an infant named Peter Smith with a 50% solution of silver nitrate instead of the routine 1%. Three doctors who examined the child's scarred eyes said that there was no hope for his sight. But the hospital's Superior pinned a relic of Mother Cabrini to the baby's nightdress and called the sisters to the chapel to pray all night. Next morning the doctors admitted that a miracle had occurred-the scars were miraculously gone...