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...train were bored, listless, let down after the four days of pressure in Ottawa. They had watched 12,000,000 Canadians having their greatest day since the King & Queen visited in 1939; had heard the sturdily sesquipedalian Prime Minister of England wow the House of Commons with his oak-hearted phrases, with a tactful tribute (in French) to the loyal French-Canadians; they had listened as he recalled the 1940 prophecy of French generals, that "in three weeks England will have her neck rung like a chicken," had roared with delight as he growled: "Some chicken! . . . Some neck...
...World War I, served in France, China and the Philip pines. For twelve years before she succeeded Major Julia C. Stimson as super intendent of the Corps in 1937, she was with the Walter Reed General Hospital in Washington. Gracious, grey-haired, she wears her major's oak leaves like a veteran...
...committeemen are: Thomas J. Ashton, of New York and Matthews; Edward Bodman, of Long Island and Thayer; Hugh Calkins, of Newton and Thayer; Jerry L. Gottschal, of Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin and Weld; Kenneth Fremont-Smith, of Cambridge and Matthews; James E. McNutty, of Oak Park, Illinois and Thayer; David B. Moseley, of Buffalo and Wigglesworth; Donald I. Perry, of Apley; Stanley Rich, of New York and Stoughton; Joseph H. Sharlitt, of Cleveland and Hollis; Dean Hennessy, of Chicago and Matthews; William Wolf, of Dorchester; Andrew J. Wright, of Columbus, Ohio, and Holworthy...
Catholics point to a variety of attitudes in their press ranging from the socially radical Catholic Worker, to the liberal Commonweal, to the Brooklyn Tablet, and Father Coughlin's quasi-fascist Social Justice (the last two called by the Florida Catholic "the Brooklyn-Royal Oak Axis"). They point also to the pro-Roosevelt cast of such leading diocesan papers as the Chicago New World, the San Francisco Monitor, the Pittsburgh Catholic. But the influential Catholic newspaper-the Brooklyn Tablet-and the two most influential magazines-America, the Catholic World -are still isolationist. Commonweal (most widely read by non-Catholics...
...peasants left their vine trellised cottages and farms to come into town and exchange the spring produce. They cared little that the nearby hermitage of N. Sa. de La Antigua had formerly been the meeting place of the Parliament of Basque Senators. They knew of the ancient oak in its courtyard--time honored symbol of the free Basques--but they marveled not that Ferdinand and Isabella in 1476, and Charles the Fifth again in 1526, had sworn to uphold the Basque Fueros under its overspreading canopy...