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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...revise the Douay-Reims Bible. A sample of their work, the Gospel according to St. John, was circulated among last week's Catechetical Congress. Chief innovations: it omits all archaic word forms except thee, thou, thine; does not capitalize the pronouns referring to Jesus Christ; arranges the text by paragraphs, not by numbered verses. Typical revisions: "desert" for "wilderness" in the passage I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness; "wine" for "vinegar" in the description of the last moments of Christ on the Cross...
...Inquirer's offices, Annenberg attorneys tried frantically to prevent its delivery. Next morning, swashbuckling Moe made news indeed when, unmindful of political and journalistic tradition, he sued for libel Senator Guffey, Station WFIL and its president, Samuel R. Rosenbaum; Mr. Stern and the Record, which published the full text of the speech...
...specializing in flashes right from Prague. Nurnberg, Berlin, London and Trieste, last week scored the most impressive beat of the crisis: it relayed the text of the four-power concord from Munich 46 minutes before any other system...
...Berle and Chief of European Affairs Moffat), to Adolf Hitler and President Benes, copies to go to London, Paris, Warsaw, Budapest. When he had decided he sent for Secretaries Hull and Welles. They sent for 14 correspondents, who arrived in pajamas and bedslippers under their topcoats, to receive the text of President Roosevelt's world gesture...
...announcing that they no longer regarded League members as bound "automatically" to join in applying sanctions to an aggressor. Last week the British delegate, Mr. Richard Austen Butler, served formal notice that His Majesty's Government back this new interpretation, while maintaining that "The Covenant's text and structure shall remain unaltered...