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When Roman Catholics think that their faith has been flouted or their rights have been invaded, they get mad, form picket lines, write letters to editors, buttonhole legislators, in short, act like the political citizens they are. Protestants, whose aggregate weight is much greater, appear by comparison either meek or musclebound. But last week in Philadelphia a Protestant group took off its coat, rolled up its sleeves and displayed capable biceps. A meeting of 500 Protestant ministers and laymen gave enthusiastic endorsement to a League for Protestant Action. Among other things, the League announced its belief in the proposition that...
Perhaps, in their search for an apt historical comparison, the editors of "Time" should have turned back a few more centuries to the story of the Trojan Horse. Very truly yours Marshall H. Stone, Professor of Mathematics...
...comparison with 1932 standards the Nazis have raised the level of over-all German consumption. But immediate consumption (which omits money spent for housing construction) is still 10% below that of 1927. Moreover, Nazi economists themselves predict a decline of purchasing power for this year. The regime gains acquiescence from the majority because the industrial working class (approximately 40% of the population) has lost relatively less income than the upper, upper middle and lower middle classes-and with the unemployed now at work the class as a whole has gained. The farmers (approximately 21% of the population) receive about what...
...girls to woozy, crawling abstractions, from genteel sculptures in baby-blue plaster to great blocks of stone, from Christmas-cardy woodcuts to elusive black-and-whites, the show represents all trends, tastes, techniques. A few exhibits, with their wavering lines, naïve perspectives, jumbled colors, may invite perplexed comparison with little Hilda's fourth-grade drawings. But there is not enough surrealism to bite beholders. Many things in the exhibition treat in some way of the American scene...
Seeing the cost to Cambridge to the proposed project would be exceedingly small--$500,000--in comparison to the advantages that would be gained, there is no possible reason why any intelligent Cantabridgian should not sign the city-wide petition. The project will bring not only jobs which will pay union wages to Cambridge laborers but business to Cambridge merchants as well. It will mean that slum areas which are now rapidly depreciating in value will be rehabilitated. Furthermore, the cost to the city of police, fire protection, health service, and delinquency control will be greatly reduced by the abolition...