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...true, fine and real likenesses of Pope Pius XI which has ever been made. I am having this framed for my desk because this picture of the Holy Father expresses that essentially military aspect of the Catholic Church characteristic of the Church Militant. It seems to best express the basic idea underlying Catholic Action...
...came a cracker: "These inquiries have allowed us to establish a general basic plan to be undertaken in the near future ... by collaboration with the Associated Press and the Havas news agency. . . . The Quai d'Orsay assures the technical and financial control of this news service...
...President, silent on the matter, probably proposes to conduct the Tennessee development in such a manner that neither school of rugged individualists will be injured. But state socialism, in a form howsoever diluted, cannot be imposed on the American commercial structure without real basic reform. The Farm Relief Bill is a hoary example, but it still serves to illustrate that the importance of this issue is greater than the President seems to appreciate...
...variable quantity which the Secretary of Agriculture adjusts to bring farm prices up to the desired level. Once they are at pre-War parity, the tax scales off and disappears. Processors pass the tax on to consumers in increased food prices. In effect, it is a sales tax on basic necessities-the kind of levy President Roosevelt and the Democratic party view with horror if formally applied to manufactured commodities. What it will cost the consumer no one who can has yet dared to estimate. Explains Secretary Wallace...
...resurrected. Last week U. S. businessmen, inexperienced in resurrection, were trying to forecast the nature of a dead industry about to be brought to life. Millions of dollars of profits depended on correctly gauging the size, the requirements, the effect upon their own concerns of the resurrected brewing industry. Basic criterion, to be modified by current conditions, were facts about the beer industry before it died thirteen years...