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Mommele, Poppele. Abie was a natural for radio when Anne Nichols persuaded Soapmaker Procter & Gamble to put it on the air last year. Playwright Nichols, who bats out the serial with the assistance of a writer named Alford Van Ronkel and the cast, hoarded her material so carefully that a year passed before she exhausted the three acts of her play. The strident squabbles continue with the newlyweds subordinated to their united families. Babies belch, actors say "oi" and "certainel," call each other "mommele," "poppele," and "schlemihlich shpalpeen...
Kansas City Star Correspondent Ted Alford wrote that "an experienced observer" for the Democrats had just returned from a trip on which he found 95% of the Party's following "reconciled to a fourth-term nomination." There was nothing left for Democrats to do but start slugging it out for runner-up. That would be the only remaining fun after the 1944 convention drafts Franklin D. Roosevelt again...
William E. Hocking '01, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, called for a "painful sincerity in our talk about freedom" as the keynote of America's moral approach to the war. "A war to restore the status quo can arouse no vast enthusiasm", he said. America is fighting for "another chance to give democracy a serious trial," Rocking said. And this freedom which we speak about "goes for America, for China, and also for India. This nation's greatest contribution to the world, according to him, is a "duck's back for shedding cynicism," and an ability to make idealism work...
Speaking in the forum, Alvin H. Hansen Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy, William E. Hocking '01, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy and Civil Polity, C. Crane Brinton '19, associate professor of History, and Thomas Matters '43, president of the Student Council, will discuss the sacrifices which groups and individuals must make...
...Crane Brinton '19, associate professor of History, Alvin H. Hansen, Littauer Professor of Political Economics, William E. Hocking '01, Alford Professor of Philosophy, and Thomas Matters '43, will speak on various aspects of the University's relation...