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...Same day in Washington most of the U. S. Catholic hierarchy¶three Cardinals, nine archbishops and 66 bishops¶were gathered at the Catholic University of America for their annual policy meeting. Their 78 pious hearts ached with the matter of Mexico, where such doings as the Las Casas incident are currently the Church's daily lot. At the end of their three-day meeting the bishops and archbishops issued a statement of their views. They recalled that as long ago as 1926 they had issued a pastoral dealing with the century-old "war against religion" in Mexico...
Instructive was the whole proceeding. Secretary Hull announced that discussions of the trade agreement had been going on for twelve months, but it was obvious that the actual bargain must have been whipped into shape in about two months. Only hearing was a three-day session in Washington during July, but there was no public or political wrangle for the good reason that nobody knew what the terms of the forthcoming agreement were. In Cuba and Washington, manufacturers, producers, importers, were given informal hearings. No sworn testimony was taken. Interested parties were allowed to present their views, claims and kicks...
...three-day trial brought out that Don's car had no lamps, license, horn. Sportsman Don assumed full responsibility for taking the fatal trial run, said that he had done so at the suggestion of his young mechanic, that he knew that the steering gear was faulty...
Sister Jansci ("Jenny") Dolly was fined $750.000 and given a suspended three-day jail sentence in Paris for evading a luxury tax of $33,000 on a 51-carat diamond costing $185,000. Said she: "I cannot pay even...
...Federal bail had been set at $200,000 which he could not raise himself and which his attorneys could not get reduced. But his three-day imprisonment produced a strange wave of sympathy among Chicagoans whom he never knew. Putting up their property with that of Insull's few friends as security, they induced Fidelity & Casualty Co. to provide the $200,000 bond...