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FELLOW REPUBLICANS! Out across the crowded stadium in Chicago thundered a monster voice. On the platform behind a bank of microphones stood tall, trim, white-haired Senator Lester Jesse Dickinson of Iowa, partisan partisan. Temporary chairman of the Grand Old Party's grand old party, he was "keynoting" the campaign to come. Theme: The Depression would have been infinitely worse if it had not been for that "stalwart American, Herbert Hoover" and his Lincolnian efforts to meet the crisis...
...Encyclopedia) give 433 as the date. In Saul the old sod was turned and blessed for a mighty statue and altar to St. Patrick. Then began preparations for more extensive doings. Planned long ago for June 1932 was the 31st International Eucharistic Congress of the Roman Catholic Church. Like monster church picnics, these gatherings are designed to promote religious solidarity, give the faithful an outing on a large scale. Eucharistic Congresses have been held throughout France and Belgium, in Rome, Metz, Amsterdam, London, Fribourg, Jerusalem, Cologne, Malta, Montreal, Madrid, Vienna, Chicago, Sydney. Last one, in 1930, was in Carthage, where...
...Dublin's wooded Phoenix Park stood ready last week a great pillared altar, with long colonnades on either side. There, on June 26, would take place the Congress' climax, a High Pontifical Mass, followed by a monster procession, 15 miles long, in which 20,000 stewards were to herd the faithful into line, with loudspeakers every 180 ft. to help them keep in tune while singing hymns. The whole thing is to be broadcast,* filmed. Celebrant of the Mass, and of a special mass for 70,000 children from all over Ireland, is to be Papal Legate Lauri...
...complicated the peace-problem of the world in general and of the United States in particular. In a sense it in difficult to feel much sympathy for the Premier, in spite of the courage he displayed. The Fascist spirit which led to his death was for him a Frankenstein monster, nourished only to have it escape from its control and turn against him. Put into office in order to press Japan's aggressions at the expense of China, he was killed by representatives of the national feeling that he had not gone far enough, and had weakened in the face...
With 187 Congressmen on record as Wet (TIME, March 21) and the nation economically ailing, antiProhibitionists have been pointing with new emphasis and hope to drink as a source of revenue and employment. Last week the economic argument for Prohibition reform had gathered enough momentum to cause plans for monster "beer parades" throughout the land, and three famed Drys came out in favor of resubmission of Prohibition to the people...