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...sobriquet of "only French college in the U. S." It was in Nimes, France, one solemn morning in 1851, that the first Augustinians of the Assumption took their public vows. The vigorous doubt of Voltaire and the science of Diderot had troubled Catholic France. The Assumptionist Fathers swore to combat irreligion in Europe, to missionize in the East. From the Balkans to the Dead Sea they established their posts. Shrewd, they learned Oriental languages, heard confessions in German, Greek, Turkish. Some-times they adopted and altered slightly alien rituals to make their gospel first familiar, then embraced. In Jerusalem they...
...Escobar promised me $250 a flight," said practical Capt. Barber. "I tags along with him till that guy owes me $6,000 for combat flights and bombing work. Then I skips, and I takes the bus with me. I'll get mine all right. That plane cost Escobar 16 thousand. I've got a couple of prospects right here in town'll give me six thousand...
Enemy to the Russian Orthodox Church is the Soviet Government. But Soviets can be subtle. To combat orthodoxy they chose not atheism or agnosticism, but Baptist and Methodist missionaries. The Soviet plan: to foster Baptist activities and thus enfeeble orthodoxy. This was in 1921. Last week the shrewd Soviets had to admit they had blundered...
...Millionaires," the "Giants," were Jobless Herbert Bayard Swope and Lawyer Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne. As students of finance know, they had come to London to combat the recent decision (TIME, April 1) of British General Electric Co., Ltd., to restrict a forthcoming stock issue to British citizens exclusively. This plan aroused much opposition on both sides of the Atlantic. One British M. P. even denounced Sir Hugo Hirst, British G. E.'s managing director, as "a super-patriot of German origin"-the reference being to the fact that Sir Hugo, though now a Britisher, was born in Munich...
...March 2, 1929 President Coolidge signed the Jones-Stalker Bill which authorized the imposition of a maximum penalty of $10,000 fine or five years imprisonment or both for violations of the National Prohibition Law. The purpose according to Senator Jones, was to combat large scale "bootlegging" operations. By a special provision "the courts are to discriminate between casual or slight violations and so called regular bootlegging or attempts to commercialize violations of law". This latter provision has no legal effect since it is but a pious exhortation to the judges to be nice to the amateur offender...