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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...tried to pacify the warring world, without avail. Pius XI (1922-) has had almost as great an effect on the Catholic world's religious life as Pius X. He surpasses Leo XIII's effect on the nations. He is a spiritual diplomat, in many respects the earth's most potent individual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Souls, States & Helicopters | 12/29/1930 | See Source »

...late spiritualist husband Lady Doyle declared: "I happen to know that [since his death] he could have gone very high, but deliberately remained behind in order to keep contact with the earth and influence the spiritualist movement." Thus did she refute recent testimony by a spiritualist medium that the soul of Sir Arthur was "earthbound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 29, 1930 | 12/29/1930 | See Source »

Nonetheless, so much agitation over international publicity, and such matter-of-fact consideration of a transatlantic telephone call, were significant. Pope Pius XI is enlisting all things modern to the advancement of his Church throughout the earth. Last week he ordered three helicopters for his messenger service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Souls, States & Helicopters | 12/29/1930 | See Source »

...elect the 261st Pope, there was no medieval bickering and dickering for the office. All were agreed that the next Pope must be capable of vigorous action, a doer as well as a thinker, an executive as well as a mystic. The influence of the Church over the earth must be extended, its sway reestablished. The time. 1922, was propitious for both. Religions gain when peoples are spiritually disorganized and muddled, as they were just after the War and still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Souls, States & Helicopters | 12/29/1930 | See Source »

...most of South Carolina the terrain is rolling pinewoods, fields of broomstraw, greywhite cotton acres ruled off with black furrows. Beyond Spartanburg, S. C. the passengers could see King's Mountain thrusting its razor back out of the foothills. From Charlotte to Greensboro, N. C. the carpet of earth is dotted with milltowns: a single, great smoke-belching building or group of buildings surrounded by straggling rows of little dwellings. At Winston-Salem, east of the course, rises the Camel Cigaret Factory. Then the course goes via Appomattox over the red clay farmlands and scrub forests of eastern Virginia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: E. A. T. | 12/22/1930 | See Source »

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