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IssueVol. 031 Issue 002 (November 3 1939)
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Paid articleTHE WEEK
Anti-War and also Pro-Peace SEARCHING for something more positive than simply fear or distaste for war or a sweeping but futile condemnation of warmongers, a neutral is in danger of becoming too...
Paid articleON CATHOLIC PUBLICITY
Williams, Michael
IHAVE BEEN asked by the editors of THE COMMONWEAL to write something for the fifteenth anniversary number on Catholic publicity. In doing so, I shall select a few points from the innumerable...
Paid articleALL ROUND RELIGION
Riggs, T. Lawrason
FOR PRESENT PURPOSES I shall define religion as any totality of beliefs and practices regarded by man as establishing relationships between himself and a higher power or powers, upon which he...
Paid articlePRELUDE TO WORLD REVOLUTION
Shuster, George N.
THE WAR which is now in progress is, of course, an episode in the history of contemporary revolution. What has happened in Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland is to be accounted for primarily on...
Paid articleONLY AN INCIDENT
Kelley, Most Reverend Francis C.
FIFTEEN YEARS ago I fled to Europe on the excuse of attending a Eucharistic Congress in Amsterdam and a meeting of the International Committee. I had another excuse too, for I had been appointed...
Paid articleSTEPCHILDISH (Verse)
Farbstein, W. E.
A politician's fortunate, When all is said and done. He has a hundred thousand friends, Besides a barrel of fun. While a statesman has but few of the first And of the...
Paid articleTHE CHANGE BEYOND
Cram, Ralph Adams
TWENTY-SEVEN years ago, Michael Williams and I conceived the idea of a weeklymagazine under exclusive lay control and representing the best Catholic opinion in the widest possible field of...
Paid articleMEDICAL ADVANCE
Walsh, James J.
THE EDITOR of THE COMMONWEAL has asked me to tell the story of medical advance during the hfe of the magazine. It is surprising how different the practice of medicine has become during the brief...
Paid articleTHE TWO YEARS BEFORE
Skinner, R. Dana
THERE IS a big difference between the fifteenth anniversary of the first publication of THE COMMONWEAL and the seventeenth anniversary of THE COMMONWEAL'S organization— a two years' difference...
Paid articleINSIDE STORY
Homan, Helen Walker
THEY CALLED It "The Quiet Corner"—but it wasn't. At least, not if you understand the weekly column so entitled (which In those days occupied a small space toward the rear of the magazine) to...
Paid articleCAVALIER
Vernon, Grenville
TN HER LATEST BOOK, "Men, Women, A and Places," Sigrid Undset devotes a chapter to Henry Longan Stuart's "Weeping Cross" and entitles that chapter "Cavalier." In that one word she sums up not...
Paid articleMEMORY OF THOMAS WALSH
Kolars, Mary
THE KEY of one's memory of Thomas Walsh is wholeness. General qualities of character are usually recalled easily, because it is the intelligence as much as the memory that does the...
Paid articleTHE DARK VIRGIN (Verse)
Gessler, Clifford
Out of the deep, strong, steadfast Indian heart, This calm and sweet embodiment of prayer: These downcast eyes, serene as evening air, And generous lips as if about to part In words of comfort...
Paid articleVIEWS AND REVIEWS
Williams, Michael
IT IS highly interesting and quite important news that Robert Hugh Benson's novel, "Lord of The World," is to be republished by Dodd Mead and Company, who hold the copyright, because, so I am...
Paid articleCOMMUNICATIONS
WAR Seattle, Wash. TO the Editors: Today's feast of the great martyrs and healers of the East, Saints Cosmas and Damian, reminds me of the duty of Christians as set forth in Christ's parable of...
Paid articleTHE STAGE
Vernon, Grenville
The Man Who Came to Dinner THIS IS another Kaufman-Hart success. They seem to flow in as regularly as the tides, and if they are unimportant in the realm of literature or psychology, they are...
Paid articleTHE SCREEN
Hartung, Philip T.
Garbo Laughs! AT LONG LAST, Greta Garbo brings her beauty, individuality and deep voice back to the screen. And as a comedienne she sparkles—with the help of Director Ernst Lubitsch who knows...
Paid articleWRITTEN FROM THE RIDGE
Broun, Heywood
DEAR EDITORS: You remember we talked the other day and you said I might try my hand at pieces for THE COMMONWEAL. I wanted to have some title which would suggest "Letters From a Convert,"...
Paid articleBOOKS OF THE WEEK
Moment in Time and Space The Hundredth Year, by Philip Guedalla. New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company. $3.00. THE HUNDREDTH YEAR—1936—follows precipitately "The Himdred Years" which the...
Paid articleFIFTEENTH ANNIVERSARY
It is, one hopes, the privilege of an institution, however modest in position, to abandon on special occasions the, modesty suitable for individuals. The Commonweal's fifteenth birthday—the...
Paid articleTHE INNER FORUM
THE CONCENTRATION of American Catholics in our largest cities is widely held to bode ill for the future of the Church in the United States. Not only the numbers, for urban families are not large...
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