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Next day, in accord with the bosses' announcement, Bruce Barton was nominated for the Senate. The demonstration for him from the aggrieved pros was pathetically feeble, but Tom Dewey, in an atmosphere of sportsmanship, revived the convention into fighting mood with a cutlass-sharp, partisan speech...
...French resistance fizzled out, on orders from Vichy. In that town of pathetic, hollow words Foreign Minister Baudouin reported to Premier Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain that all fighting had ceased. "Hence," continued the Foreign Minister, who once made a fortune out of Indo-China, "the French-Japanese accord now goes into effect in the friendly, trustful spirit which prevailed at its establishment...
Roused by the German-Italian-Japanese accord, Jeff Davis, "King of the Hobos," told fellow bindle stiffs in Philadelphia to get off the road and into the Army. "This is no time to be gazing at the scenery...
...Butler says: "Those whose convictions are of such a character as to bring them in open conflict with the university's freedom to go its way towards its lofty aim should, in ordinary decency and self-respect, withdraw of their own accord from university membership." This suggestion neglects to consider the interests of the student, who after all stands to suffer most by such action. Whether or not members of the faculty will take up Dr. Butler's challenge, we don't know. The result is more likely to be that those whose conduct is in "open conflict" with...
...stand of President Butler in asking "those whose convictions are of such a character as to bring their conduct in open conflict with the University's freedom to withdraw of their own accord," was generally interpreted as a repetition of his action in 1917 when two professors were dismissed for their views...