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May 13, 1938 THE COMMONWEAL 61 dollars spent mean goods being produced and consumed, and men being put to work. All too often, however, this speeds runs away with us. People borrow and buy, borrow...
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Books Integrity General Chiang Kai-shek, by General and Madame Chiang Kai-shek. New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company. $2.OO. THIS fascinating book is apparently designed primarily to make...
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The Commonweal 382 Astronomer My homeroom class was hanging out the stars, Arranged on cardboard charts for Science Two; An orange was the sun, a painted...
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Italian Boys Old Giotto, five long centuries ago, Probably painted boys who looked like these, Who felt the same ecstatic Latin glees, Shouting their games of Murra to and fro. No doubt he often...
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152 A MAN'S JOB By GERALD RAFTERY IT WAS after midnight when Jim counted his money. He wanted something to eat; he needed it, too. He dug deep into the only sound pocket of his...
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The Commonweal
January 24, I936 ming about on skates. Young folk are strolling around inspecting the animals that are about to be blessed. The elders, with all time at their disposal, are...
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222 The Commonweal December 2I, 1934 first stricken from the hands of the Negro's forefathers it was recognized t h a t education would be one of the principal means of uplifting the race. The...
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On a Dead Teacher Her deed and her name will be lost In the deep earth; She has labored and never counted the cost That a dream was worth. The children who learned from her silent lips Will...
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Old Orchard The builders hammer nearer day by day. The tentacles of streets Stretch up their arms of red-raw clay. The clanking shovel eats The ground that raised so many crops of hay. Nearer...
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R, Francis X. Murphy, C.SS.
Bad Boy
(May 1938)
