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...your officers had yielded ... it would have injured the spiritual responses of the American people. It would have been a step on the pathway of Government doles. . . . We are dealing with the intangibles of life and ideals. ... A voluntary deed is infinitely more precious to our national ideals and spirit than a thousandfold poured from the Treasury. . . . In all this there is the imponderable of spiritual ideal and spiritual growth. . . . You have renewed and invigorated the spiritual life of the nation...
...attempt at realism but there is a fundamental difference. Weill & Brecht did it in a comparatively high-minded mood. They meant to exalt Lindbergh in the same epic style which the ancients used to exalt their heroes. Their intention was not to shock seasonsed concertgoers but to tell the deed "in terms intelligible to school children or to students at preparatory schools...
...Curley called it a "confession of moral bankruptcy." Bishop Dunn quoted His Holiness, Pope Pius XI: "Since, therefore, the conjugal act is destined primarily by nature for the begetting of children, those who in exercising it deliberately frustrate its natural power and purpose, sin against nature and commit a deed which is shameful and in- trinsically vicious. . . . No reason, however grave, may be put forward by which anything against nature may become conformable to nature and morally good." (TIME...
...nothing to the improvement of international relations. Furthermore, the mud-slinging and fireworks usually attending American trials might serve to make the Butler statement even more aggravating abroad. Already Senator Heflin has shouted in the Senate that the Italian dictator is a "red-handed murderer" guilty of a "dastardly deed...
...simple way ingratiates himself with the guests. Promoters of a fake stock company appear on the scene and try to buy the hotel in exchange for stock. "Mother" (the wife) is all in favor of the idea, but Lightnin' distrusts the men and refuses to sign the deed. Mother institutes proceedings for divorce, but just in time the false promoters are exposed, and there is a happy reunion...