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...Living Church (TIME, Jan. 24). These dignitaries, and a great many more, were accused in the Soviet press of everything from drinking champagne with nuns to plotting assassinations of Soviet officials. Last week, with at least 20 bishops in jail and one, Metropolitan Theophan of Gorki, reported executed, the threat of the crusher appeared to have "converted" at least one potential victim. Nikolas Platonoff, Metropolitan of the Living Church in Leningrad for the past four years, announced he had abandoned the church...
...Bill, I've got you a triple threat! And is he a corker! He's kind of old, but he's still got plenty of football left in him. He has played on about every semi-pre outfit around here (but he's smart enough to know how to be an amateur when the occasion demands, Bill) and he's burned up every league he's ever been in. There is the usual catch in this case, Bill, as in every other, viz, the boy's a little dumb, in fact he is awful dumb. What will we do? What...
Labor trouble caused by student "supers" at the Boston Opera House became a threat to the harmony of the Metropolitan Opera Association yesterday, when the students protested against their treatment at the performance of "La Boheme" on Tuesday night...
...functions which caused so much opposition will place the control of expenditure in the hands of Congress where it rightfully belongs--and where it theoretically resides today. To call the bill "a dagger in the heart of democracy" ignores the fact that governmental inefficiency is a far more serious threat to representative institutions than is the possible misuse of power in the President's hands...
...chairman, Indiana's Sherman Minton quickly produced a Dr. Edward A. Rumely who as secretary of something called the National Committee to Uphold Constitutional Government admitted that he had spent $50,000 and sent out 800,000 letters to defeat Reorganization, in which Publisher Gannett sees a threat to Democracy. On Dr. Rumely's somewhat ill-chosen mailing list, it turned out, was Texas' Tom Connally who had received a letter addressed to the Honorable Tom Connally at Marlin, Tex., urging him to urge Senator Connally to vote against the bill. Said Senator Connally: "Senator Connally took...