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With throbbing voice and unctuous Christian charity he thumped for the National Union for Social Justice, his organization for ''restoring America to the Americans." After roasting Bernard Mannes Baruch and the "lories of high finance," he declared: "I am characterized as a revolutionary for raising my voice. . . . With the logic of a braggart I have been challenged to divest myself of my priestly vocation if I wish to participate in national affairs. Does our conception of Americanism . . . cling to the outworn theory of the divine right of kings by which is implied that the affairs of good government...
...wish to offer a judgment of superiority or inferiority. I critize Cambridge more severely than my American friends who have worked there. The unctuous epigram is too apt to be handed out as a substitute for statement. Et surtout, messieurs, pas trop de zele. On balance, though the assets in each case are quite different, there is perhaps not much to choose between the two. But if Cambridge tends too much to the dilettante, Harvard is not dilettante enough. Apart from that, I think that Cambridge, though harassed about its aims, subconsciously postulates certain functions of a university and satisfactorily...
...Before God to Hitler!" In Germany devout Christians, heartened by their priests and pastors, have been called a bulwark against Nazi extremism. To win the votes of these good folk by unctuous conciliation last week was not the strategy of "My Leader." After more than a year of hesitant bickering, German Protestants suddenly felt the whip of Reichs bischof Ludwig Müller, a square-headed, ruthless, onetime army chaplain picked by Catholic Hitler to be their Evangelical Shepherd...
...channels assigned to weak Southwestern U. S. radio stations. Last fortnight Mexico's Department of Communications issued an order suspending XER for 30 days. Resourceful Dr. Brinkley got a restraining injunction, went on broadcasting by remote control. A higher court quashed the injunction. Still cowboy songs, jazz and unctuous medical advice continued to gush out from...
...that the shouting and the yelling has subsided, the rosy mists which surrounded Repeal are drifting away revealing the highly unpleasant fact that liquor prices are exorbitantly high and in some cases prohibitive. Despite the unctuous announcement of the distillers that they would have an abundance of whiskey on the market at $1.50 a quart, the cheapest blended whiskey obtainable costs $2.75 and the uncut variety runs from $5.00 to $8.00. Even more outrageous than the prices of hard liquors are those charged for wine. Domestic wines sell for about $1.50 a quart, while the imported product is considered cheap...