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...first of these rules was to be discarded, that the Exchange was about to launch a big publicity campaign by radio, movies, lectures, and advertising to teach the public that the Exchange is a benevolent and useful institution. Even brokers guffawed at such a naive effort to avert the wrath of Congress. Much embarrassed. President Richard Whitney announced that "No such program had been approved or even considered." Someone, it appeared, had proposed it to the law committee of the Exchange and an Exchange official had spoken out of turn. Rule 1 went back in force more rigidly than ever...
...title since taken over by Mr. Giannini's Bank of America of which Arthur Reynolds last February became vice chairman. To the Brothers Reynolds also went criticism for overexpanding loans, for sometimes employing good fellowship instead of good judgment in banking. On their heads also poured the wrath of Chicago's oldtime banking aristocrats. Today few Chicagoans care to discuss the Reynolds Brothers. The job of Continental s next chairman will be to put the bank which has successfully survived the Depression and the Insull collapse back across the economic divide...
Bitterly righteous was the wrath last week of Editor John P. Barden of the University ot Chicago's Daily Maroon. Accusing the Chicago Tribune of "unethical journalism," of "deliberate misuse of the freedom of the press," of bad taste, folly and falsehood, he said that the "world's greatest newspaper" could not be called a newspaper at all, but only "Colonel Gump McCormick's daily indignation was expression an of opinion...
...Nazi wrath knew no bounds when His Eminence Michael Cardinal von Faulhaber, Archbishop of Munich, exhorted German Catholics last week to vote "according to your conscience." Nazis stormed that the Cardinal should have said "Vote Ja!" In a speech of passionate denunciation General Goring spoke of "black moles" (priests) as little better than "Red rats" (Socialists)-despite the fact that Chancellor Hitler is nominally a Catholic...
...through me kings rule and tyrants hold their power." Later, in the Sententiae of St. Isidore of Seville, iii 48, we find a long explanation of the sanctions of the tyrant's rule centering around a dictum of the Prophet Hosea "I shall give them a king in my wrath." Gregory the Great, in his commentary on the Book of Job, insists that the ruler, whatever be his weight or fineness, must not only be supported, but reverenced as a limb of God. More, in his Regulae Pastoralis iii 4, he praises David's forbearance with Saul, and ordains that...