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Wartime was normal life to Lilo Linke and her contemporaries. Substitute food, standing in line, semi-starvation were more exciting than dreadful. Every day brought some change, some new restriction to be got around somehow. What she principally minded were her ragged clothes. Adolescence and the Armistice made her more...
Beyond the reach of rich Boss Calles' revenge is the Apostolic Delegate but not the Primate of Mexico, Archbishop Pascual Diaz. No sooner had Archbishop Ruiz sounded off from the safety of Texas last week than Archbishop Diaz's secretary in Mexico City announced with anguish: "The Primate...
There is no graver portent in American life today than the determined effort to create a 'red' scare and exercise a censorship over our colleges and universities. If this campaign of terrorism and hysteria should succeed it would sound the death knell of academic freedom everywhere. Censorship by government, such...
Ahead of Mr. Mellon, who is so painfully shy that his low quavering voice fades even in private conversation, lay a dreadful ordeal-his own appearance on the witness stand. Secretary Johnson had testified that he himself prepared his employer's 1931 tax return, that, in the confusion of...
André Maurois, like a week-end guest who hopes to be asked again, is unfailingly gracious about England and the English. This half-loaf appreciation of Dickens is sliced thin, á L'Anglais, buttered on the right side. But U. S. readers who like whole-wheat will raise...