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Since some 95% of the Austrian people are Catholics, and since Orator Göring's serious purpose in Vienna was to persuade all Austrians to vote "Ja" on April 10,* the most conciliatory part of the speech was addressed to the Church. "We have no desire to destroy religion," said Hermann Wilhelm Göring. "In Germany we have not destroyed the Church but only the clerical politicians...
...affirmative on the question, "Resolved: That Congress should pass the Equal Rights Amendment" were Malcolm R. Wilkey '40 and Eno W. Hobbing '40. Ruth Frankel, Chairman of the Debate Club and Margaret Delahanty, President-Elect of the Wellesley Forum, argued against the amendment on the grounds that it would destroy the present program of "specific bills for specific ills...
...giant black ice cream cone and roared with the noise of a hundred freight trains. That day, the same ominous sight and sound terrified farmers and townsfolk at random points through the Mississippi valley in Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Missouri, Alabama and Iowa. But in Belleville, where it was to destroy some 60 dwellings, kill ten people and injure 35, last week's twister struck hardest...
...seems wholly unfitting in presenting so curt and terse a description of a man whose whole life was devoted and sacrificed to the happiness and welfare of young boys, that TIME should attempt to destroy with one malicious and ill-chosen word the work and efforts of a lifetime of such an outstanding public servant, both as friend and clergyman...
What made these people destroy themselves? Author O'Hara did not so much solve the problems he set for himself as simply worry them apart. He examined the friendships of his victims, their financial jams, their new & old love affairs, their prejudices, inhibitions, the tormented jokes they cracked about their difficulties. In the course of his investigations he built up unsparing portraits of their environments -a pick-up world where nobody understood anybody else, where people imagined crimes and perversions in the back-ground of casual acquaintances, where they confided in strangers and insulted their friends, where enough brutal...