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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mischief of the pillar painting or statue lifting sort by Harvard men in New Haven next weekend will be frowned upon by the University to the extent of severing of connections, Dean Bender said yesterday...
...Catholic Church in Czechoslovakia was faced with a painful choice between two evils: to continue in full defiance and risk wholesale persecution, or try to salvage as much as it could of its organization by coming to some sort of terms with the state and playing for time. Hungary's Cardinal Mindszenty had chosen the uncompromising course; despite his stand, the church in Hungary was forced to submit to state control. In a directive to priests which explains their reasons for choosing the course of compromise, the Czech Council of Bishops wrote: "It is necessary to... save...
...Duncan, the late Dancer Isadora's creaky, Hellenoid brother, long one of the sights of Paris (see cut), arrived in the U.S. to spend a year celebrating his 75th birthday. With the Attic cultist came a member of the faithful whom he introduced as Mrs. Aia Bertrand, "a sort of Svengali." He planned to put on his own opera ("a comic tragedy") in Manhattan's Town Hall, in which he would insure uniform quality by playing all the roles. Admission: free...
Should pension systems be set up for all U.S. industrial workers? Last week, after a survey of 1,000 industrial executives, Mill & Factory magazine reported that 78% of them would go along with some sort of company pension plan. Only 6% think the company should bear the entire cost. As for federal pensions, 89% would rather install company plans than pay for a major expansion of the Government's Social Security program. Growled One Midwest manufacturer: "Our whole system is degenerating to the point where something for nothing is a fad . . . The mad scramble...
...James Chesnut was 38 when the Civil War began. Highbred and lively, daughter of a governor of South Carolina and wife of a Confederate Senator, she was the sort of Charleston hostess to whom Jefferson Davis, Stephen Mallory, Alexander Stephens, Robert Toombs and other pillars of the Confederacy told state secrets...