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...never lost as much money as he has made, was ostensibly writing an autobiographical narrative, "The Story of a Speculator." The first of three installments told of his boyhood in Guelph, Ont. his going to Chicago, his first contacts with the Pit and how he learned to "sweat blood" when prices moved against him. But woven through the story was his defense of speculation, his malediction of all regulations that impede...
Trustworthy TIME is grievously in error when it intimates that Arthur Maillefert was done to death in a Florida "sweat-box"' for the petty crime of "stealing $30" (TIME, Oct. 24, "March of Time...
...strange fanatical figures deemed holy by the ignorant. Fairly well-known by Catholics throughout the world are the German peasant Therese Neumann and the Italian Franciscan Padre Pio, both of whom are reputed to have stigmata on their bodies. In Belgium and in Northern Spain are nuns who "sweat blood" during their devotions. Last week the Church moved to quiet the activities of all such persons. The Holy Office in Rome ordered the Belgian and Spanish women to be treated as medical cases. Padre Pio and Therese Neumann were forbidden to receive pilgrims. Padre Pio was ordered to cease singing...
...toward politics which has been bothering your correspondents and editorial writers the last few days seems to be placing the blame most unfairly. Your editorial repeats the hallowed junk about "academic detachment" and advocates men studying such matters from a high judgment seat far removed from the blood and sweat of actual conflict. That is a good point of departure, but it is insane to expect anyone to get a true picture of any social problem but high tables in the stultifying atmosphere of Harvard self-approval. The average Harvard man is usually a disciple of the mysterious metaphysics...
...architect must integrate his building with its surroundings (function, terrain, climate), make plain its structural elements and if possible develop them as ornamentation. He would teach them the feel of materials by having them blast stone, hew timber, dig soil, work in a machine-shop. They would study, sweat, play and brood in unison. They would be called, not ''students'' as in other colleges, but by the fine old medieval guild word, "apprentice." Last week Architect Wright had done something about his school idea...