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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...officials announced that "Honest" Harold LeClair Ickes would have the last word upon his return from California. Meanwhile, Secretary Morgenthau issued a statement explaining that Chip's departure from the Treasury had been "voluntary and under honorable circumstances." Aggrieved Chip filed and then withdrew a $50,000 suit for slander against Representative Delacey Allen. Hot-tempered Delacey Allen offered to meet Chip Robert "with or without gloves" in the stadium at Georgia Tech's Grant Field, admission at $5 a head and the proceeds to "go toward meeting the State debt...
...Italian populace, helped elect Popes. In 1180 Pope Alexander III restricted the right to Cardinals alone.* Century later, when Cardinals meeting in Viterbo took nearly three years to elect a Pope, an indignant populace locked them up, deprived them of all food except bread and water. Hence the word conclave, meaning "with...
Historian Menke, who got his start in journalism at the turn of the Century because he could define the word "mollycoddle''† better than anyone else in Cleveland, has ghostwritten for 175 U. S. celebrities, including Josephus Daniels, Samuel Gompers, Cardinal Gibbons, Jack Dempsey. Bob ("Believe It or Not") Ripley says Frank Menke can answer 4,000,000 questions. One bit of information baseball officials wish Historian Menke had not dug up: there is no proof that Cooperstown, N. Y. was the birthplace of baseball, nor that Abner Doubleday, its accredited founder, ever played the game...
...relentless for real life. But it is the special nature of the theatre to raise emotions to higher power, somewhat simplifying, somewhat exaggerating, but tremendously intensifying. Playwright Hellman makes her plot crouch, coil, dart like a snake; lets her big scenes turn boldly on melodrama. Melodrama has become a word to frighten nice-nelly playwrights with; but, beyond its own power to excite, it can stir up genuine drama of character and will. Like the dramatists of a hardier day, Lillian Hellman knows this, capitalizes on it, brilliantly succeeds...
...began a series of articles on "The Youth Problem" by well-loved Bishop Bernard J. Sheil, founder of the Catholic Youth Organization and ranking Chicago hierarch during Cardinal Mundelein's absence in Rome. Some Catholic friends of the Guild angrily assailed this kind of "scabbery," but a quiet word from Bishop Sheil's office stopped them. He I wrote the articles last summer, and Guildsmen were given to understand that he was surprised and pained by their publication during the strike...