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...Roosevelt (TIME, Feb. 9). Old (78), horse-loving Pat Nash, who got rich tearing up Chicago's streets and inserting sewers therein, picked him for the practically honorary post (the Kelly-Nash machine gets all the upstate patronage, anyway). When he was tapped, McKeough spoke up with a lump in his throat: "Whatever I have accomplished in public life, I owe entirely to the Honorable Patrick "A. Nash, the greatest patriarch in the Democratic Party's history in all America...
That the flame of patriotism, unless carefully hedged, bursts into a roaring, uncontrollable fire, has been driven home to us on several occasions. At the modest soda fountain where we recently had our afternoon tea our request for a lump of sugar was countered by the aggressive inquiry whether we didn't know there...
...campaign to spread discord among the United Nations to be "as shrewd, as ruthless as any plot of the Borgias." Axis radio spray to the U.S.: "American policy is dictated in Downing Street . . . will leave America holding the bag." To Brit ain: "The British Empire is dissolving like a lump of sugar in the Roosevelt teacup...
...small part of the 36,000,000 British adults belong to the Church of England, whose membership is only 2,294,000. This is not much more than England's 2,200,000 Roman Catholics, or the 1.938,700 Baptists, Presbyterians, Methodists and others whom the Anglicans lump under the heading of "Nonconformists." Attendance at Church of England service is known as "going to church." Attendance at any other Protestant service is known as "going to chapel." In the U.S., the Federal Council of Churches was formed in 1908, but the Episcopal Church (affiliate of the Church of England...
...Bless the Child (Bea Wain; Victor). Billie Holiday's new hard-times song, sung with the appropriate lump in the throat...