The Commonweal week by week DISTRIBUTIVE J USTICE D URING World War II the United States performed such prodigious feats of production as to confound observers from other lands. Our farms...
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The Age of Discussion "ALTHOUGH THE MAJORITY OF AMERICANS ARE CONSERVATIVE, THEY LACK ANY INTELLECTUAL LEADERSHIP IN THE SERIOUS JOURNALS." RUSSELL KIRK ~r"-II-~HAT damnable vile business": so...
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FROM GERMANY Frankfurt'. Economic Barometer DESMOND FENNELL A S a city to live in, Frankfurt is unbearable. In a more spacious city like Berlin or Hamburg you have some chance of escaping...
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LABOR LEADERS Testing a New Technique A LITTLE over a year ago the Catholic Labor Guild of Boston tried a new technique in bringing the teachings of the Church to the workers. It organized...
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THE STAGE A HANDFUL OF DUST H EREWITH a week's chronicle, arranged in the order of ascending merit: Mr. George Axelrod's "Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?" (at the Belasco) drearily takes a...
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THE SCREEN FATHER, DEAR FATHER, COME HOME WITH ME NOW S timely as today's headlines is "Rebel Without a Cause," a new movie about juvenile delinquency that has enough penetration to make it...
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OF NOTE CATHOLIC INTELLECTUAL RESPONSIBILITY T :HE Autumn issue of Thought, Fordham University Quarterly (441 East Fordham Road, New York 58, N.Y.), contains a lengthy article on "American...
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COMMUNICATIONS "PALACES OF PLEASURE" New York N. Y. T O the Editors: Gabriel Gersh, in his article "Palaces of Pleasure" [Oct. 14], describes graphically the encroachment of industrialization...
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BOOKS Catholics and the Grammar of Dissent TOLERANCE AND THE CATHOLIC. A Symposium. Translated by George Lamb. Sheed and Ward. $3.50. By ERWIN GEISSMAN W E are all concerned today with the...
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