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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chunky Charlotte Whitton is one of the best-known social workers in Canada; she is also one of the most determined women in the Dominion. Last spring, when Dr. Whitton criticized Alberta's penny-saving welfare system, Provincial Health Minister W. W. Cross shrugged her off as just "a human talking machine." He would run his department as before. Cracked Dr. Whitton: "Didn't Hitler say his empire would endure 1,000 years...
...same sort of laxity. Now they had to eat their words: two Episcopal clergymen had just married divorcees -in church, with the permission of their bishops. The brides & grooms: thrice-married Elizabeth Donner Roosevelt Winsor, first wife of Elliott Roosevelt, and the Rev. Benedict H. Hanson of Baltimore; Isabelle W. Morrill and the Very Rev. Kirk B. O'Ferrall, ex-dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, Detroit...
...indeed. The Right Rev. William T. Manning, retired Bishop of New York but still as vigilant as ever, sparked the Living Church editorial with a letter published in the same issue. He did not directly mention the two consenting bishops involved-William Robert Moody of Lexington (Ky.) and Frank W. Creighton of Michigan-but he left no doubt about what he thought of them. Wrote...
...Last week summer students, hunched over tables in the isolated quiet of Harvard's Widener reading room, were equally oblivious to the roar outside the windows. The roar came from bulldozers, hollowing out the foundation for a new and surprisingly modernistic annex (see cut) given by Harvardman Thomas W. Lament, '92. Despite its 4,900,000 books, its 125 miles of stacks and its accommodations for 4,500 readers, the Harvard University Library was feeling cramped...
Said Francis I. du Pont & Co.'s Thomas W. Phelps, a leading exponent of the Dow theory: "The stage is set; if the industrials and rails now can advance above their February highs, the bull market will be signaled." On July 11, the industrials broke through the February high, but the rails failed to follow...