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...this cure is to be administered. Here is how it came to his hands. The Senate, fortnight ago, passed the McNary-Haugen bill, 47 to 39. Party lines were torn to shreds; the vote was almost purely sectional-the West and South against the East. The House, last week, threw aside its own farm relief bill, adopted the McNary-Haugen bill exactly as it came from the Senate. Thus, the delay of a conference was obliterated. The farm bloc, with grey-haired Representative Haugen at the helm, bowled over the regular Republican organization with steamroller tactics that recalled the days...
...treatment of sick souls. A good priest, through the confessional, can develop a treatment for the individual and we have nothing to compare with it. For six years I have conducted-Baptist though I am-what I call a confessional. I am not afraid to recover things the Protestants threw away- beauty of service and the confessional. I have an office where people who know they are spiritually sick and mentally disturbed can come with their problems. Why shouldn't I minister to them? Never again will I be without such a place where people can meet me alone...
...From her small purse Zina Jukova produced a bit of paper and a pencil. Pursing her lips, she wrote. "Draw that long Finnish knife you have, Sergei!" she laughed. "Here is your paper." Trembling, Student Slovochotov drew his knife. The girl, still laughing, unbuttoned her bodice with one hand, threw back her head, and pouted her lips to receive a kiss. . . . Some hours later Sergei Slovochotov gave himself up to the police. Before that he had sat through a cinema show. Before that he had gulped down two bottles of beer. Before that he had plunged his long Finnish knife...
...every baptismal font he sees swimming a school of vermin. For the business interests U. S. Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg has been the nervous advocate; for the Church, Bishop Diaz has been the obstreperous protagonist. President Calles has been sending Secretary Kellogg temporizing notes; Bishop Diaz he threw out of Mexico. In the U. S. Bishop Diaz will wait until Mexican Catholics can organize an effective political party and throw out President Calles and his party...
...reception. The morning papers stated that lamp's diminutive janitor was greeted by a shower of rotaries dairy products and gin battles. This was a bit of false in formation bitterly resented by Bob "Why I was the big act," he said in defense, and the fellows only threw money...