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...William Jennings Bryan chose the rostrum of old Madison Square Garden to launch his first Presidential campaign in 1896. Such job-seekers as Herbert Hoover, Alfred E. Smith and Franklin D. Roosevelt have counted New York the climax of their speaking tours. Similarly Rev. Charles E. Coughlin of Royal Oak, Mich., after opening the membership drive for his National Union for Social Justice before an apathetic audience in Detroit, followed by a triumph in Cleveland, last week put himself to the critical test in Manhattan...
This, the eighth day of the auction, marked the last and saddest chapter in the Mauretania's career. Her furniture and paneling of oak, mahogany and walnut, in French, Italian and 18th Century English styles, were disposed of. Now up for sale were such sentimental souvenirs as lifeboats, lifebelts, steering wheel and her name itself. Lifeboats brought $31 to $101 each, the steering wheel $150. The scramble for lifebelts bearing the ship's name puffed the price to $42 each. The siren, which blared the Mauretania's way into port for 22 years as speed champion...
Undergraduate--1st Prize of $500 to Richard S. Salant '35, of New York, N. Y., for an essay entitled "The Poet's Harp." 2nd Prize of $200 to Howard F. Schomer '37, of Oak Park, Ill., for an essay entitled "Robert Frost and the Good Life in the Twentieth Century...
With heart and brains removed, the body of Josef Pilsudski, Dictator of Poland, lay in an oak coffin before the high altar of St. John's Cathedral in Warsaw last week. Outside a drenching cold rain was falling, and so great was the crowd of mourners in the cathedral square that several had their arms broken, dozens were trampled on, scores fainted...
...more than the ordinary yearnings of a Priest toward applied Christianity had young Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, when he was assigned in 1926 to organize a new parish in the Detroit suburb of Royal Oak. A Klan cross burning before his church door turned him to fighting bigotry by radio. For two years he preached simple gospel and his mail grew slowly to 4,000 letters per week. Having imbibed the social doctrines of Pope Leo XIII, he determined to descend from moral generalities to hard social particulars. With uncommon eloquence he articulated popular discontent. When he reviled unemployment, mass...