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      |  Vol. 027 Issue 006 (December 3 1937) | 
    
    
      
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      |  Vol. 027 Issue 009 (December 24 1937) | 
    
    
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      |  Christmas : 1937 | 
    
    
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      | The Commonweal ,A WeeUy Review of Lifeyalure, TheAr1s and Puln(icllfairs EDITORIAL BOARD MICHAEL WILLIAMS, Editor JOHN J. O'CONNOR, Acting Managing Editor MARY KoLARS, Assistant Editor  JOHN... | 
    
    
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      | 226	The Commonweal	December 24, 1937 "Preserve me from it all !" cried the impious Marcion. "Away with these pitiful swaddling-bands and this manger, unworthy of the god whom I adore." That many... | 
    
    
      |  The Four Magi | 
    
    
      | Goulding, Stuart D. | 
    
    
      | December 24, 1937	The Commonweal	229 THE FOUR MAGI By STUART D. GOULDING SOON Melchior, hoary and bent, Balthasar, in his prime with a beard, Jasper, young and beardless, will march across the... | 
    
    
      |  Gifts of the First Christmas (verse) | 
    
    
      | Root, E. Merrill | 
    
    
      | 230	The Commonweal	December 24, 1937 that very castle where they still worship fire, with the people of all the country round about." Now the years are many since Messer Marco Polo traveled in... | 
    
    
      |  The High Cost of Taxation | 
    
    
      | Lucey, Lawrence | 
    
    
      | December 24, 1937	The Commonweal	231 THE HIGH COST OF TAXATION By LAWRENCE LUCEY PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT in a letter to the Federal Trade Commission has re-quested this body to investigate the cause... | 
    
    
      |  Christmas in New Mexico | 
    
    
      | Philibert, Sister M. | 
    
    
      | December 24, 1937	The Commonweal	233 gland, stout from Ireland, silk from Japan; all these articles and many more are taxed. In 1936, $387,000,000 was collected by the federal government as an... | 
    
    
      |  The Cheerful Dean | 
    
    
      | Lavery, Emmet | 
    
    
      | December 24, 1937	The Commonweal	235 THE CHEERFUL DEAN By EMMET LAVERY THIS is the month for anniversaries in my home town half way up the Hudson Valley. The city is celebrating its z5oth... | 
    
    
      |  At Christmas (verse) | 
    
    
      | O'Malley, Frank T. | 
    
    
      | 236	The Commonweal	December 24, 1937 All this time, unbeknownst to us, he was giving away to all who needed it the sizable fortune which had been left to him by his father. He was serenely... | 
    
    
      |  New Horizons in the Missions | 
    
    
      | Garesche, E. F. | 
    
    
      | December 24, 1937	The Commonweal	237 NEW HORIZONS IN THE MISSIONS By EDWARD F. GARESCHE CATHOLIC missionaries engage in health work for their people both because there is no one else to do it,... | 
    
    
      |  Sillery: First Canadian Reduction, 1637 | 
    
    
      | O'Connor, Thomas F. | 
    
    
      | 238	The Commonweal	December 24, 1937 and, as far as the constitutions permit, the regulation should be observed. "In reference to the practise of medicine and surgery by missionaries, the... | 
    
    
      |  Seven Days Survey | 
    
    
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      | 240	The Commonweal	December 24, 1937 Seven Days' Jamey The Church.—Among the forty Christmas broadcasts of the N.B.C. are part of a liturgical service from the courtyard of the Church of the... | 
    
    
      |  The Play | 
    
    
      | Vernon, Grenville | 
    
    
      | 244	Tice Commonweal	December 24, 1937 The Play and -5creen Cornelia Otis Skinner W HEN a few months ago a well-known critic chose as the four leading actresses of the American stage Katharine... | 
    
    
      |  The Screen | 
    
    
      | Cunningham, James P. | 
    
    
      | 244	Tice Commonweal	December 24, 1937 The Play and -5creen Cornelia Otis Skinner W HEN a few months ago a well-known critic chose as the four leading actresses of the American stage Katharine... | 
    
    
      |  Communications | 
    
    
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      | December 24, 1937	The Commonweal	245, communications THE TABLOIDS New York, N. Y. TO the Editor: There have been interesting comments on the appearance of a Catholic diocesan paper in tabloid... | 
    
    
      |  Books | 
    
    
      | Bregy, Katherine; O'Reilly, Bryan M.; Merton, John Kenneth; Elms, David A.; Beth, Laura; Middleton, John S.; Lane, James W.; White, Olive B. | 
    
    
      | ,246	The Commonweal	December 24, 1937 Book Chaplain at Large My New World, by Ernest Dimnet. New York: Simon and Schuster. $2.50. IN this second volume of his memoirs, the inimitable Abbe Dimnet... | 
    
    
      
      |  Vol. 027 Issue 010 (December 31 1937) | 
    
    
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