Word: lessons
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...voiced a layman's proposition which any theologian worth his salt could turn upside down: "Before men can worship, they must eat." Said Preacher Lewis: "I believe in God and the Christian church. I believe any country devoted solely to materialism lacks something. You can draw your object lesson from Germany. . . . The church in Germany has lost the confidence of young men and women...
...last week 125 pupils gathered dutifully in their schoolyard to watch Fat Stuff's last lesson. First a health inspector examined Fat Stuff. Then he gave the silent children a lecture on hog inspection. Then he slit Fat Stuff's throat...
When genial, canny Edward Phillip Farley stepped out of the chairmanship of the U. S. Shipping Board in 1924, he took with him a lesson World War I had taught him. In that war Norway sold ships to belligerents willing to pay fantastic prices for bottoms to carry their precious foodstuffs and implements of war, collected insurance from Great Britain on chartered ships sunk by submarines and mines. In the lull that peace brought to world shipyards the canny Norwegians rebuilt their merchant marine at rock-bottom prices. Even today 45% of Norway's vessels are less than...
Last week the Maritime Commission permitted Shipper Farley, now executive committee chairman of unsubsidized American-Hawaiian Steamship Co., to put his lesson into practice. For a fat $1,600,000, he sold four of his tired old (20-21 years) tubs to Great Britain, which needs cargo ships to transport war supplies. This gave Mr. Farley cash in the bank with which to begin replacing his fleet of 34 ships (average age: 23 years), if he wants to. His four old ships, out of service until the war boom, netted him the fancy price...
...movement and the great trial to which we were subjected by the justice of God? It is painful to note that the fulfillment of the holy commandments of the Law of God and of the Church is not what was to be expected after receiving such a tremendous lesson. There are parishes where hardly 5% of the men and no more than 20% of the women go to Mass; nor is the percentage of those who go to confession and do their Easter duties much greater...