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...spite of being the more Shakesperi-enced actor of the two, Olivier was far worse than Miss Leigh. But his greatest sin was not his acting but his directing...
...suddenly become a mortal sin to get a high salary in industry. I ... object to being put in the public stocks and used for campaign material. For instance, a couple of years ago two members of the Cabinet* got on the radio and held Mr. Sloan [G. M.'s board chairman] and myself up as having received over $350,000 a year in salary and bonus-but they did not say that Government and charity had gotten 90% of this amount...
...Once the sin of accepting any interest at all, usury is a lesser crime today. Most States have laws which permit licensed, bonded small-loan companies to charge interest rates as high as 3½% a month (2½-3% in New York). In the last five years New York State Attorney General John James Bennett Jr. has been going after loan sharks who aren't satisfied even with this. In almost 200 convictions and injunctions he has secured the return of $278,000 to victims. Last week he got another: the biggest modern loan shark he had ever...
...Adam and Eve, on account of their sin, lost innocence and holiness, and were doomed to sickness and death...
Most young U. S. Roman Catholics learn about Original Sin from these questions & answers in the "Penny" or "Baltimore" catechism, first published in 1885. From them they might infer that Eve was at least as guilty as her spouse. But this is not good Roman Catholic doctrine: Adam, as father of the human race, bore the blame for Original Sin; Eve, only for her own sin. Last week, at a convention in Kansas City of the National Catholic Education Association, Father Francis J. Connell revealed that in the revised U. S. catechism which long has been in preparation (TIME...