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IssueVol. 013 Issue 010 (January 7 1931)
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Paid articleThe Religion of Politics
HOWEVER often and how much polticians are the cause of moral reflections on the part of others, rarely indeed do we find one of them becoming a moralist himself—except, of course, when he...
Paid articleWeek by Week
TJROBLEMS and Issues of the most momentous -*- kind were dealt with by the Pope in his Christmas allocution to the cardinals. Not until we have an opportunity to study the complete text of the...
Paid articleFor Our Admiration
^ H E ROBUSTNESS of our nuns Is constantly -*• amazing. The sentimental and traditional ignorance that depicts them as fragile and infinitely pathetic creatures Is so far from the truth, yet It...
Paid articleHigh Wages and Unemployment
Ryan, John A.
It is familiar to most of our readers that Dr. Ryan is director of the social action department of the National Catholic Welfare Conference and professor of industrial ethics at the Catholic...
Paid articleIn Remembrance
Boardman, Frances
ONE WINDY morning of February, 1919, I arrived in Iowa's capital city, confronted by the duty of interviewing for a St. Paul newspaper the Right Reverend Austin Dowling, D.D., Bishop of Des...
Paid articleThe Proud (verse)
Frost, Frances M.
They are the proudest who have met defeat, They are the proudest who must walk alone, Cherishing the vanished and the sweet, Remembering blossoms broken on a stone. Go softly, you who have no...
Paid articleVine Leaves and Rose Petals
Owen, Louise
IN T H E fine old days when the women of the family brewed as well as baked, flowers were good for much more than ornamenting the house. The dandelion, which children love to pick and crumple...
Paid articleSelling Politics
Murphy, William C. Jr.
SINCE merchandising, traditionally, is the flower of American genius it is not surprising that the business of selecting public officials has been placed on a plane with the selling of tooth...
Paid articleThe Plight of the Poet
Maynard, Theodore
TEN YEARS ago when, funds being low, I was obliged to cross the Atlantic as a steerage passenger, I had an experience that more than compensated for the discomforts of the voyage. It was this:...
Paid articleSpray (verse)
Laube, Clifford J.
Who watches at the window-sills Of wonder, scanning heaven's face. Drinks of an Essence that distills Through din and silence out of space. Ever with intermittent spray Of stars and petals and...
Paid articleThe "Digest" of Justinian
Zublena, Francesco
THERE has just passed the fourteenth centenary of the "Digest," issued along with the well-known constitution, "Deo Auctore," addressed by Justinian to Tribonianus. The date was December 15, in...
Paid articleCaribbean Memory
Thompson, Frederic
"My brother, I would have thee know that the things which make a soul good and blessed are holy contrition, holy humility, holy charity, holy devotion, and holy joy."—Brother Giles in "Little...
Paid articleCommunications
EINSTEIN AND FREUD New York, N. Y. TO the Editor: I hope THE COMMONWEAL is by now heartily ashamed of the Einstein article in its issue of December 24. If T H E COMMONWEAL is to make any...
Paid articleThe Play and Screen
Skinner, Richard Dana
Tom Sawyer THE MOVIES have a habit of coming frequently to their own rescue—a more pronounced habit, by the way, than the current stage has. The stage flows on from one absurdity of obscenity to...
Paid articleFor a Friend's House (verse)
Welch, Marie de L.
This is a wise house and a lovely house, Knowing the sea's and the hill's way. Watching through spray of apple-blossoms The salt spray. The hill gives it safe strong walls. The sea widens its...
Paid articleBooks
Woodlock, Thomas F.; Vernon, Grenville; Sweeney, James J.; O'Sheel, Shaemas; McCormick, John F.; Healy, Patrick J.; Chase, Mary Ellen; Ryan, John A.; Sherwood, Grace A.
Challenge to Demos The American Rich, by Hoffman Nickerson. New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company. $2.50. MR. NICKERSON'S thesis is quite simple. It is, in a word, that what the United States...
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