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...charred by the great fire, the city's best and brightest people are meeting hourly to protest the rule of the "nine" in whose hands Billy left the city's virtue and the keys to heaven. The Boston Puritans, a strictly non-commercial ball team, has been organized to combat the menace. But they refuse to play the evangelical boys until they are permanently assured of the repeal of Sunday Baseball...
...Moscow, when the 50th birthday of Commissar of War Klimentiy Voroshilov rolled around last week a public subscription was opened. With the proceeds three thumping birthday presents will be bought, presented to Comrade Voroshilov: a dirigible, "several combat planes,"? a submarine...
Harvard, Princeton, Columbia and Yale have all declined the $25,000 bequeathed to each of them by the late Albert Enoch Pillsbury, onetime Massachusetts Attorney General, to combat Feminism (TIME. Jan. 19). Harvard, which permits female students in a few of its courses and whose President & Fellows constitute the supervising Board of Visitors of nearby Radcliffe College, refused as a matter of policy. Princeton, which has never allowed women in any of its courses; Yale, which has many a post-graduate female student and a School of Nursing, refused with equal firmness. Columbia, which has more women than men, found...
...last week's Canterbury convocation in London. Anglican priests and bishops want faith healing authenticated and formalized under the strict discipline of the Church for two reasons: 1) many have been anointing the sick and laying their hands on them in dismayingly haphazard fashion; 2) they wish to combat Christian Science, which they consider a growing menace to the Church of England. In sundry ways the Anglicans showed how appalled they were that London now has twelve Christian Science churches, whereas five years ago the number was only seven, and ten years ago only three. A Rev. T. F. Monahan...
...best be borne, unemployment insurance has as many opponents as advocates. But the purpose of the Governors' conference is not to provide immediate legislation on this subject; it is rather to place the facts of unemployment in bold relief so that the most effective means may be taken to combat the evil...