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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...union dropped him. Because he was no longer a union man, to porters, pitchers, ticket collectors, out-goods and cartage men everywhere he traveled he was a sort of hot supercargo, a one-man affront to the cherished principle of "complete membership" (closed shop). At Euston and St. Pancras 800 men stopped work. To Camden Town Depot, to the Smithfield Markets the stoppage spread. Soon 4,000 workers were clamoring for Gwilliams' buttons...
Father Rice, a founder of Pittsburgh's labor-aiding Catholic Radical Alliance (TIME, June 28, 1937) and of St. Joseph's House of Shelter, for which he says "a wealthy Catholic who hates my radical guts kicks in a hundred bucks a week," retorted: "We will accept the outstretched hand of Communists only when it ceases to be Communist and relinquishes the doctrines and tactics that have put it beyond the pale of normality and ethics." Father Rice and Communist Hathaway appeared agreed on one thing only: that anti-Semitism is "Fascist propaganda." The audience did not record...
Last year St. John's redhaired, natty President Stringfellow Barr, ex-Rhodes Scholar and onetime Chicago professor, picked out the 100 greatest classics, let freshmen choose whether they would begin under the new curriculum or the old elective system. Chosen authors, some of whom are represented by more than one book...
This fall, freshmen entering St. John's had no option. For four years they will study in classes only the 100 classics, no modern thinkers, no modern science. They are required to learn passages from the classics by heart, take frequent quizzes. Only departure from the 100 books: students may listen to a college collection of symphonic phonograph records, learn to play the piano...
Meanwhile, the college of the 100 classics had run afoul of its first big snag. Some immortal thinkers are out of print, others have never been translated from the original Greek or Latin. To rescue their imperishable thoughts from oblivion and make them available to its students, St. John's has had to make its own translations, print its own copies of such thinkers as Nicomachus, Apollonius, Lucian, Gilbert, Aristarchus...