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This latest westward shift caused little surprise among U. S. Catholics. Though Western Catholic strength is not to be compared numerically with that of the East, its enrolled communicants are more numerous (save in Mormon Utah and Idaho) than those of any other sect. Once the Western Catholics were scattered pioneers. During the last decade the U. S. hierarchy has worked mightily in the West to build up schools, colleges, churches, hospitals. No State is now without a diocese of its own (last to get one was Nevada last year - TIME...
...setting. Though it does not pretend to be a complete account of a visit on which much has already been written, it will be of interest to those who know only the writings of a philosopher who was gifted of "every virtue under Heaven," and actively interested in the westward course of Empire...
Under General Nakamura troops had pushed down the Sungari River to within 30 miles of the Amur River which at that point is the frontier. Eastward from Harbin and westward from Harbin other Japanese columns advanced out along the arms of the Chinese Eastern, which touch Russian territory at each extremity. Mysteriously a Japanese troop train was blown up on the C. E. R., 40 Japanese killed, 100 wounded...
...Westward Passage (RKO) improves on Margaret Ayer Barnes's novel but is still dull, incredible. It purports to show respectable ladies how to have their cake and eat it too. Ann Harding, more phlegmatic than usual, meets a penniless young Bohemian (Laurence Olivier) and elopes with him into poverty, diaper-drying and bickering, which bounce her into the arms of an appreciative tycoon (Irving Pichel). The new husband is substantial, adequate and unexciting for ten years or until the first husband turns up again, successful, in Lucerne, Switzerland. The combination results in a triumph for romance. An attempt...
...ships, two for the North Atlantic service, two for a projected Pacific route. Even larger than the LZ-129 now abuilding in Germany, each ship will carry 80 passengers, 25,000 lb. of mail and express, will make the eastward passage in two and a half days, the westward in three. To expedite the mails, the Federal Government will pay about $20 a mile for an average load of 10,000 lb., $8 more than it spends at present for shipment on crack liners. Individual passenger fares will be about one and one-half times the de luxe boat rate...