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Occasion was the 50th anniversary of Leo XIII's famed social encyclical, Rerum Novarum. Originally the Pope had intended to bring Rerum Novarum up to date in an encyclical of his own. Instead, he decided to speak directly by radio to that "worldwide Catholic meeting" made possible by "this most expedite bridge which the inventive genius of our age throws across the ether in a flash." The Pope declared his purpose "to give some further directive moral principles and three fundamental values of social and economic life: the use of material goods, labor, and the family." He gave them...
Last week U.S. Catholics celebrated the 50th anniversary of the first great labor encyclical, Leo XIII's Rerum Novarum ("Concerning New Things"), and the tenth anniversary of its sequel, Pius XI's Quadragesima Anno ("Forty Years After"). In these two documents the Roman Catholic Church said its say about social reform, and with its age-old flexibility took steps to adapt itself to 20th-century social change as it had to feudalism in the Middle Ages and to capitalism after the Reformation...
Celebrated. By the Rt. Rev. William T. Manning, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of New York: his 20th anniversary as a Bishop; his 50th as a minister; his 75th as a person...
...fact, ultra-respectable King George last week sent a telegram of congratulation and commendation to N.o.W.'s roly-poly, pink-cheeked, 74-year-old editor, Sir Emsley Carr, a shrewd, kindly, self-made Yorkshireman (knighted in 1918 for his war philanthropies). The occasion was Sir Emsley's 50th anniversary as News of the World editor...
...than a year, kept him from hearing the world premiere of his violin concerto, written for Jascha Heifetz and played in Cleveland in December 1939. Fortnight ago, his job kept him from another first performance: his Scapino, a Comedy Overture, commissioned by the Chicago Symphony as part of its 50th-anniversary celebration...