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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...X & Mr.Y...
Into the news next blazed Mrs. Pauline Mae Clarke, hitherto a quiet competitor. Her trouble last week was with one of the men who have given her valuable assistance in the race-Mr. Harold H. Madill whom the Canadian press last week was calling "Mr. X." When Husband Clarke quit after siring only four children, Mr. Madill unselfishly stepped in to sire five more. By last week Mrs. Clarke's confidence in this second collaborator had somewhat waned, and after obtaining a court order to eject Mr. X from her house she was trying out a third...
...mind the project of virtually scrapping the League in the guise of "reforming" it, as favored by Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain, reputed future Prime Minister. In League Secretariat circles everyone believes Mr. Chamberlain wants to have eliminated from the League Covenant its three most vital articles: Article X under which League States guarantee each other's territorial integrity and independence; Article XVI under which Sanctions are adopted against an aggressor; and Article XIX in which provision is made for revision under League auspices of treaties. If these articles were scrapped, the United Kingdom could take an aloof...
...Hall to sing publicly the music they have been singing all year in church. When this happens, Town Hall is invariably packed to the doors. Students, critics, laymen and churchmen well know that no other organization in the U. S. can sing plain song so perfectly as the Pius X School Choir. Last week Manhattanites were marveling again that any choir could get such feeling out of archaic melodies and Latin texts...
...Wiener Sängerknaben are one of the oldest Christian choirs still singing, the choir of the Pius X School of Liturgical Music is one of the newest. The school was founded by a stylish little woman named Mrs. Justine Bayard Ward, 57-year-old sister of the late Senator Bronson Cutting. In London, at 25, she became a Roman Catholic. Profoundly interested in Catholic liturgy, she studied at the Benedictine school in Solesmes which Pius X, then Pope, considered the best school of plain song extant. In 1918 she gave $100,000 to build a liturgical school in Manhattan...