Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than to any other professor. In 1932 Governor Roosevelt told his lawyer friends Samuel Rosenman and Basil O'Connor to go out and bring him specialists to help formulate some good answers to national questions. They selected Raymond Moley to corral the specialists. On his second visit, Dr. Moley brought his next door neighbor, Dr. Tugwell. To Governor Roosevelt, Dr. Tugwell stated his prime belief that private greed under the profits system had caused the Depression. At once Mr. Roosevelt and the professor were on speaking terms; the professor
...such an extent that by last month it had broken down completely. Though he took candle in hand and marched devoutly in one of the many well-attended Corpus Christi parades last month, Vice Chancellor von Papen seemed no longer persona grata to the Church. On his last visit to Rome the Pope did not deign to receive...
...Boniface, In Fulda last week the Church made its annual conference of bishops a show of strength. All over the town fluttered the gold-&-white flag of the Papacy. Pilgrims poured in, ostensibly to visit the tomb of St. Boniface who as "Apostle to the Germans" in the 8th Century, fought against the same kind of Teutonic paganism that many a Nazi seeks to revive today. So the Nazi Konigsberg Journal recalled that Boniface placed the German Church "under Rome, and thereby laid the foundations for the later struggles of Popes and Kaisers...
...skillful at tinkering engines that mechanics visit his shop just to watch him, Miller no longer works on his cars, has not owned a pair of overalls in years. He amuses himself on his small ranch near Malibu Beach with a group of monkeys which he hopes will be the nucleus of a private zoo. The monkeys are named after famed auto-racers whom their owner thinks they resemble. Another Miller hobby is radio; he has a dozen sets. He has designed marine engines for Gar AYood, contemplated making an airplane motor until he lost interest in flying three years...
...street. unaware that they were missing a feast, might have pointed out more than one reason for the genteel hullabaloo. Thomas Mann is a Nobel Prizewinner (1929). This was his first visit to the U. S. Hitler's victims, if sufficiently presentable, are popular in Manhattan. Author Mann brings no topsy-turvy social message; even a banker is safe in his company. Though some of his books have been best-sellers in Germany, his finespun writing will never appeal to the U. S. masses. But the man-in-the-street, more than half right about the smokescreen, would have...