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...find his desk littered with urgent cables from Chief U. S. Delegate Cordell Hull in London. In them Mr. Hull-described by London newshawks as a "stricken man"-revealed that the Conference steering committee was ready to vote adjournment. Blame seemed about to fall squarely on the President. By utmost efforts Mr. Hull had barely managed to persuade the Conference steering committee to hold off until next day. What was the U. S. Delegation to do? The President pondered an answer...
...Roman Catholics; that Protestant Church membership has fallen off 50,000 to 75,000 in recent years. Declared Dr. Douglass: "Christians who combine the spiritual and the social are needed [in China], especially to plan and demonstrate and set up norms for religious education. It is of the utmost importance that these two things be not separated . . . that spirituality shall prove itself not sterile or callous to social suffering and injustice...
...acting Reichsbischof Müller's words were branded as "inventions from the whole cloth and lies. The Chancellor belongs to the Catholic Church and has no intention of leaving it." Spiritually German Catholics breathed easier. Politically they were almost forced last week to give up the ghost. Utmost pressure was put on the Catholic Center Party to dissolve. Into their midst "The Doctor" stuck his sharp propaganda harpoon. "If I may be permitted," he sneered, "to give the Centrist party a piece of gratuitous advice it is this: CLOSE YOUR SHOP. There are no more customers coming your...
...today is how best adapt the great heritage of the past to the changing times and the uncertain future ahead. A university is primarily a group of creative scholars whose lives are dedicated to the greater glory of the human spirit. It scams to me a matter of the utmost Importance that in these difficult days all that Harvard has stood for and that universities for centuries have fostered should be strengthened and maintained...
...Federal unemployment fund relieved communities and citizens from doing their loyal duty toward their local jobless. Said he: "The bill, in effect, is a challenge to governors, legislatures and local officials to stimulate their own efforts. . . . The first obligation is on the localities . . . then the State must do its utmost. . . . Only then can the Federal Government add its contribution...