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President Calles signed last week a decree in 36 firm articles, implanted teeth of acute sharpness in the new body of Mexican anticlerical laws. (TIME, Feb. 22) His Holiness, Pope Pius XI, simultaneously deplored, in an address to 100 U. S. Catholics: "... these laws which are a pretense for the conduct of those who oppress Catholics in Mexico...
...firm has a perfect right to sell the Apocrypha if they so desire, but no one has a right to suggest to the public that they are something hitherto unknown. I wonder that you would permit such misleading statements to be made in your advertising columns...
...Milan a potent firm of Italian piano manufacturers received last week a note on impressively crested paper: Dear Companions in Sonorous Construction : Upon the arrival of the piano which I ordered from you recently its strings began suddenly to vibrate, drowning the sound of nearby church bells. Not without trembling I perceived that the shadow of Franz Liszt, who was once a guest here, had entered the instrument and was producing with long immaterial fingers a beautiful rhythmic tempest. "This is a place of mysteries and prodigies. Rejoice with me!" (Signed) Gabriele d' Annunzio Gardone, Lago di Garda...
Though the government remained firm in its determination to jam through a suspension of the Seven Hours Act, the Labor party announced its irreconcilable opposition. Former Laborite-Premier Macdonald declared: "The Premier's speech was most disastrous,... will harden the miners into adamant resistance." Secretary "Emperor" Cook of the Miners' Federation apostrophized Premier Baldwin in a public speech: "You say, Mr. Baldwin, that you have no desire to lower the miners' standard of living. Baldwin...
...survey, which comes from a firm of professional drive managers, concludes thus: "We are impressed pretty, strongly with the fact that these charts show twice as many alumni givers as public givers but an average public gift 75 per cent, higher than the average alumni gift." Who are these public givers who play so "important a giving part"? Deponent sayeth not. Yet they can only be successful men who regret their own lack of an alma mater elder members of that new group of Americans who are so largely the cause of the need of more endowment. If confirmation...