THE ADVANCE OF COMMUNISM ONLY what are called the weak, small nations of the world, through their representatives at Geneva, raised their voices to object to the admission of Russia to the League...
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WEEK BY WEEK The Trend of Events PASSIONS flared up here and there along the front of the great textile strike, but when all was said and done there had been singularly little violence and no...
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HOW SICK IS THE NEWSPAPER? By McCREADY HUSTON TWO apparently unrelated events in Philadelphia recently brought into focus the case of the American newspaper and gave justification for a serious...
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New Neighbors down on Lem's Place They never fill the lamps until it's dark, Nor split the wood until the fire's dying; They breathe upon the last exhausted spark To hold it bright until the boy...
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THOUGHTS ON THE NEW DEAL FOR THOSE who have not already decided to their own satisfaction that the New Deal is a failure, the most vital question of present-day practical politics and economics is...
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Saying Aldebaran Seeing the stars, remember those who named them: Swart men who gazed beyond their sleeping herds To fiercer flocks, unshepherded-and tamed them With grave, mysterious, and lovely...
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RELIGIOUS STUDY CLUBS By EDWIN V. O'HARA EVERY thoughtful Catholic must be deeply concerned with the problem of adult religious education because it is so inextricably interwoven with every effort...
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SEVEN DAYS' SURVEY The Church.-His Holiness Pope Pius XI will broadcast a message to the Eucharistic Congress at Buenos Aires and the entire world, Sunday, October 14. * * * The Pontifical...
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THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Judgment Day FOR SEVERAL years now, Elmer Rice has been one of our most important playwrights. At the time his "Street Scene" appeared, there was even reason to...
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COMMUNICATIONS FICTION AND THE CATHOLIC READER New York, N. Y. TO the Editor: I was greatly pleased to read Miss Selwin-Tait's letter in The Commonweal for September 7, calling for "a magazine of...
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BOOKS The Love-lorn Seven Gothic Tales, by Isak Dinesen. New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas. $2.50. BOOKS come to the reviewer wrapped in the thick cotton batting of publicity to protect...
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