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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Days On. Last week, the Daily News jolted Chicagoans with a spread of Hogarth-like pictures and the Mooney-Bird story of their 14 days in the land of "the living dead." In the twelve-part series, Reporters Mooney and Bird described the worst of 82 squalid saloons in three-quarters of a Madison Street mile (most of them selling the "morning special," a double shot of whisky for 18?), listed the names & addresses of saloonkeepers who were breaking the state liquor and health laws, and put the finger on couldn't-care-less cops...
...Maritain sees it, the betrayal of Christianity has been done chiefly by those who are perhaps the worst atheists of all-the "practical" atheists who think of themselves as Christians. Absolute atheism is merely "a translation into crude and inescapable terms, a ruthless counterpart, an avenging mirror of the practical atheism of too many believers who do not actually believe . . . Decorative Faith is nowadays not enough . . . To believe in God must mean to live in such a manner that life cannot be lived if God does not exist...
...face truths as bitter as they were plain. No one could deny the U.S. diplomats in China had faced fiercely stubborn problems, equally stubborn men. The Chiang regime (like the Greek government, which the U.S. also supported) suffered at one time or another from many of the worst vices known to governments: corruption and disunity, incompetence and indecision. Yet in a world racked by the evil and destruction of first fascist, then Communist aggression, the American job was to work with the world it found and know what world it wanted. In China, it tried and it failed...
...worst earthquake in Ecuador's modern history* last week destroyed the garden city of Ambato (pop. 30,000) and left surrounding towns like Latacunga (pop. 20,000) mostly rubble. Estimates of the uncounted dead in the Andean valley ran into the thousands; in the town of Pelileo only 300 of 3,500 survived...
...times for Luke, who led the American League's hitters in 1936 and 1943, has a lifetime batting average of 312. But they are wariest when he complains loudest about his health, for it is a long-established fact that he plays best when he feels worst...