Word: united
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This week-end many a California Catholic business man will cross the threshold of El Retire San Inigo, putting a spiritual wall between himself and the cantankerous world. San Inigo, founded by Jesuits, is the latest unit in a fast developing chain of "retreats," which soon may gird Catholic America from coast to coast...
...rising cost of living. If the proper type of college graduate is to be attracted to the teaching profession, a decent minimum standard of existence must be offered. An increase in the number of tutors and section men is also imperative, since the individual student is now the unit of instruction...
...Andrew J. Volstead, onetime Congressman, now a legal adviser of the Prohibition unit, called at the White House office. The President had a cold; so Mr. Volstead departed. As he came out a bevy of cameras ("stills" and "movies") focused their lenses upon him. In desperation he began to run. He dodged and raced over the grass (which is strictly forbidden), behind bushes, around trees, and finally escaped with the cameras still clicking after...
Last week, however, these organizations through representatives got together in Manhattan and took the first steps towards a national conference of Jewish religious organizations, resolved that: "We representatives, . . . recognizing the fundamental spiritual unity which binds us as Jews, believing that the synagogue is the basic and essential unit in our Jewish life, and believing in the desirability of taking counsel together for the sacred purpose of preserving and fostering Judaism in America, recommend to the organizations represented at this meeting that a conference composed of national congregational and rabbinical organizations of America be formed for the purpose of enabling them...
...modeling our republic on western Europe, not on the United States. As I say, you are a mixture of races. We no longer are. We therefore copy the governments where the people are a unit. France and England are our models...