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...Senate; of a heart attack; in Washington. In 1930, after his nomination to the court by President Hoover, scholarly, genial Judge Parker became the subject of a debate triggered mainly by the American Federation of Labor, because of an opinion he had written sustaining a "yellow-dog" contract (wherein new employees promise their employers in writing that they will not join a union). Parker explained that he was merely "following the law as laid down by the Supreme Court. I had no latitude of discretion in expressing views of my own." Adding to his troubles: the National Association...
...College Students in Manhattan. Msgr. John Tracy Ellis, professor of church history at Washington's Catholic University, told some 600 delegates that Roman Catholicism had failed to provide its share of leaders for the U.S. Catholic graduates, said Ellis, have not, by and large, won "those influential posts wherein the mind of a nation is so often molded in a long-range manner through scholarship." One "great fault" of the Catholic school system, added Ellis, is a "certain failure to stimulate Catholic youth to think for themselves...
...Supreme Court, in Chief Justice Warren's opinion, held: "We do not now conceive of any circumstance wherein a state interest would justify infringement of rights in these fields." Wrote Warren in a 300-word aside on academic freedom: to "impose any straitjacket upon the intellectual leaders in our colleges and universities would imperil the future of our nation...
...shifting of history's and life's center from God to man-has become a part of man's mentality, and has grown through the centuries to the point that besides atheism there has grown up an indifference to God, a habit of mind wherein the need of God is not felt in that man feels sufficient unto himself. In this atmosphere God is relegated to the place of a 'poor relation' . . . But such an attitude cannot provide man with a reason for his existence-much less can it provide man a reason...
...them-even the man who didn't make the boiler work-had one greater objective: to make this center work. It is working now-though the boilermaker failed in his individual task-because all the others worked toward a single end . . . the formation of a mystical body wherein all men and women are united...