CATHOLICS AND LIBERALS pATHER RYAN undertook a day's hard work when he acceded to a request from the Nation and wrote an article on Catholicism and Liberalism. On the whole he did remarkably...
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WEEK BY WEEK drought, which a week ago seemed a minor hiatus in the normal activity of the season, now threatens to become a major catastrophe. In the corn belt rain has been so scarce for...
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THE DINNER PAIL AMONG the curious by-products of Mr. Matthew Woll's recent denunciation of trade with Soviet Russia is the tendency to foster a labor orthodoxy—a right theory of social and...
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THE ENCROACHING WORLD By ELMER MURPHY THE Seventy-first Congress began its first session—now a matter of legislative history — by devising a measure to keep out of the United States...
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Places and Persons SAHARAN SANCTITY By ROBERT DU CHALIEU AFTER a stiff fortnight of desert duty the Spahi troop of which I was second in command was enjoying a deserved rest in In-Salah, an...
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'Psalm for a Morning The Lord openeth the door of my sleep, and biddeth me to enter the day therefrom. He greeteth my step with the grass, and appointeth mine eyes with a landscape of trees. He...
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MANILA AND ENGLISH By MARIE L. DARRACH CONGRESS has repeatedly rejected the appeal of the Filipinos for independence. Our legislators at Washington are of the opinion that they have not...
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OBERAMMERGAU By JAMES J. WALSH LAST week-end we were making our way northward from Venice over the Brenner Pass to Innsbruck, through the beautiful Tyrolese Alps. Usually trains are very...
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COMMUNICATIONS FEED MY LAMBS New York, N. Y. TO the Editor:—The direct appreciation of what I wrote under this title by M. A. Walsh is flattering, and I thank him. But I am particularly pleased...
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D THE PLAY AND SCREEN By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Dancing Partner AVID BELASCO—"dean of American producers," "father of modern realism," etc.—is at it again. It has become his specialty of recent...
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Reflection The older we grow The less we know And the longer we live The less we forgive. This being wrong, No one lives long. Witter...
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BOOKS On Parnassus Beauty, An Interpretation of Art and the Imaginative Life, by Helen Huss Parkhurst. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. $4.50. BEAUTY, easier dreamed of than defined,...
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