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Pius XI's continual commands for public and private morality and his railing at the modern cinema fertilized the soil for this roguery. The Manhattan flimflammers went into Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland, six States which contain one-half the U. S. Roman Catholic population,* and found priests eager to hear the prospectus of their "National Diversified Corp." The corporation proposed to make "movie and talkie pictures of thoroughly high-class, moral type, such as would appeal to church people." They promised that their major picture, Mary the Virgin, would be reverent in plot, the scenes...
There will be no common rooms of any sort, all space being used for rooms. The Freshmen will be given wood lockers in the basement such as are supplied in the new Houses. The basements will contain rooms set aside for furniture storage, a maid's room, and a room for the janitor...
Lubyanskaya, The large but unimposing G. P. U. headquarters face Moscow's unprepossessing Lubyanskaya Square. The building is not in the Kremlin where Dictator Stalin has his home and offices. The smaller buildings in the block behind G. P. U. are all interconnected and contain the homes of its lesser officials. The highest officials of G. P. U. live in rooms adjoining their offices and seldom stir outside. Each has his kitchen, his trusted cook. The entire G. P. U. block is guarded as a unit. Sentries mount double guard at each outside door and on each landing...
Wishful of drawing no conclusions himself. Fort constantly trembles on the verge of dark sayings. When he cannot contain himself, instead of putting the suggestion in his own mouth he says: "The expression is. . . ." The expression is, then, that a hitherto unnoticed swan was discovered in Manhattan's Central Park near the place and time Dorothy Arnold (famed lost girl) disappeared; that the stars, in stead of being inconceivably far away and wandering individually are probably within rocket-shot and set in a revolving shell (Ptolemaic astronomy;. Says Fort: ''Of course the stars are near...
Whether or not the official bulletins and miscellaneous documentary announcements from this branch of the institution will ever contain facts important enough to draw the wrath of the press and humanitarian society down on the heads of the officials, is a question. Probably the majority of statements issued are wholly harmless. Nevertheless, this is of secondary instance...