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Well aware that this about-face would strew some wigs on the green, The Commonweal's editors assured their readers that they did not favor the Loyalist cause, which, they said, has ''permitted the murder of priests, nuns and lay people" and has allied itself with Soviet Russia. But they denounced Spanish Rightists for: 1) bombing defenseless civilians in spite of "protests from the Holy Father," 2) uttering "totalitarian views very similar to those which have been condemned by the Church in other countries," 3) allying themselves with the Fascist and Nazi nations. The Commonweal urged Catholics...
...Palmer of Manhattan, trudged through the White House doorway one morning when the thermometer was -2° to keep an appointment with Mrs. Roosevelt. Their object: a conference on the "Delphic Movement" and the possibility of setting up a U. S. "hostel"' near the white marble ruins that strew the hillside of Mt. Parnassus where stood the ancient oracle of Delphi...
Today Miss Roche is proud that, despite Depression, her company is making more than in the days when her father spent tens of thousands on machine guns and barbed wire to strew around the mines. But she is not rich. Most profits go back into the company. She drives a battered Buick, stays at the home of her friends Senator & Mrs. Edward P. Costigan when she visits Washington. Surprisingly, she is a small, gentle, thoroughly feminine person with a soft voice, a quick, nervous laugh. Even in her coal mining office she dresses as most women dress...
...Smith outlined in "The Wealth of Nations" a century and a half ago. But in the new field he will not have so much liberty of action as in a room filled with machinery. Man has been making and unmaking educational systems since organized society was young. Educational skeletons strew the highways of old and modern civilization. If Mr. Ford succeeds finally in evolving something partly or entirely new, and more effective than we have known heretofore, his revolutionary achievements in industry will seem relatively only a commonplace. --Boston Herald
...Nothing looks worse than a big flask on one side and a sandwich box on the other. Carry one or the other, but not both. . . . Do not strew the paper from your sandwich box all about the countryside...