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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...YOUR OCT. 23 ISSUE TIME CALLS ROGER BABSON VENERABLE. THIS WILL MAKE OUR GREAT AND GOOD PATRON ANGRY FOR WEBSTER'S SAYS THE USE OF THE WORD VENERABLE GENERALLY IMPLIES ADVANCED AGE. MR. BABSON IS ONLY 64 AND IF YOU COULD SEE HIM RIDE WITH US WEBBER GIRLS YOU WOULD NOT CALL HIM VENERABLE. IF YOUR EDITORS USED VENERABLE IN THE SENSE OF BEING RENDERED SACRED BY RELIGIOUS HISTORIC OR OTHER ASSOCIATIONS WE WILL GLADLY WITHDRAW OUR OBJECTION FOR MR. BABSON's LIFELONG INTERESTS AND GOLDEN RULE PHILOSOPHY CERTAINLY ENTITLE HIM TO QUALIFY UNDER THIS LATTER ETYMOLOGY...
...Exhausted" was an over-violent word. Still well-oiled is Pennsylvania, though its oil now lies so deep that primary drilling has given way to "water drive"-pumping water to force oil through the wells. Pennsylvania's reserves on January 1, 1939 were 200,000,000 barrels, as compared with more than 9,000,000,000 for Texas...
...about the wrong things, the Senator damned some other topics as irrelevant: "In my view, the talk about the President or any other personage dragging the country into war is the sheerest drivel. The only person on earth who may drag this nation into war is Hitler. . . . His pledged word is not worth a thrip.* He is a fervent believer in the immoral Machiavellian doctrine of the end justifying the means, however vile the end may be. He has repeatedly lied as to his purposes since the deplorable Munich conference and it may confidently be expected that under his wretched...
...reported that 300,000 Russian troops had moved into Sinkiang. Last week Japanese sources reported that China's four northwestern-most provinces-Sinkiang, Kansu, Ning-shia, Shensi-from which the famed Communist Eighth Route Army has kept the Japanese, are being systematically Soviet-ized. And from Paris came word that Russia is to transfer tanks, howitzers, machine guns, anti-tank and anti-aircraft guns captured in Poland by both the Red and German Armies across Russia and into China...
...tall, lean, sad-eyed man sat at his desk last week in his summer palace at Castel Gandolfo near Rome. Before him was the text of a 13,000-word document which he had written and re-written three times in longhand. Pope Pius XII made some final corrections, sent the document off to the Vatican printers. It was his first encyclical, long delayed by the seismic events of World War II. Non-Catholics as well as Catholics waited to hear it as the keynote of the Holy Father's reign. Two days later the encyclical, entitled, from...