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...anti-Semite, anti-Catholic editor of The Defender, Wichita, Kans. 4) Eleanor Patterson, publisher, Washington Times-Herald. 5) Elizabeth Billing, Chicago Red-baiter. 6) Joseph M. Patterson, publisher, the New York Daily News. 7) Congressman Martin Dies of Texas. 8) William Randolph Hearst. 9) The editors of the Brooklyn Tablet, Coughlin-supporting weekly. 10) Father Edward Lodge Curran, of Brooklyn, also a Coughlin supporter. 11) Senator Robert R. Reynolds. 12) Charles A. Lindbergh...
Explaining why Harvard would not be likely to scout the coal mines next year, a country writer on the Pinchurst (N.C.) Outlook says that "Harvard is not a football college." Quoting an old tablet, he adds that it was founded so "or children shall not grow up in ignorance...
Catholics point to a variety of attitudes in their press ranging from the socially radical Catholic Worker, to the liberal Commonweal, to the Brooklyn Tablet, and Father Coughlin's quasi-fascist Social Justice (the last two called by the Florida Catholic "the Brooklyn-Royal Oak Axis"). They point also to the pro-Roosevelt cast of such leading diocesan papers as the Chicago New World, the San Francisco Monitor, the Pittsburgh Catholic. But the influential Catholic newspaper-the Brooklyn Tablet-and the two most influential magazines-America, the Catholic World -are still isolationist. Commonweal (most widely read by non-Catholics...
...Hardy and Helen Goodell tried a mixture of two ounces of 95% grain alcohol in a glass of ginger ale on themselves, found that it raises the "threshold" of pain 45% for two hours. Two ounces of 90-proof whiskey will turn the same trick. If a five-grain tablet of aspirin is added, any pain can be dulled for four hours. Dr. Wolff urged his colleagues to return to the use of whiskey for "persons suffering continuously," especially cancer victims. Said he: "It is cheaper than morphine. ... Of course alcohol is habit-forming but an alcohol habit is less...
...occupies a very important but seemingly vague place in Chinese mythology. Sometimes it has been used as a cosmic emblem and sometimes as a symbol of uncleanliness, lack of chastity. Standing, as it does, between Boylston and Widener, it can hardly symbolize the latter. The inscription on the stone tablet is an expression of the donor's high regard for Harvard; it praises education, peace, and good will...