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Vigorously pursuing Moral Re-Armament on the West Coast, MRA's Leader Frank Buchman made his most striking conquest to date-the "changing" of curvesome Mae West. Witnesses: Miss...
...debate before Parliament adjourns this week for three months. Besides discussing the dispute with Japan and the prospects of an alliance with Russia he generalized on the state of the world. Unlike 1938, when he was optimistic, Mr. Chamberlain this week found it "difficult to see" how the world armament race could be solved except "by war itself." But he hoped that a way might yet be found out of the "present nightmare into the sunlight of peace...
Into the black sky above the Hollywood Bowl in Hollywood, Calif, four great searchlights stabbed. They stood like steady swords of light-or like the beams thrown up at Germany's annual Nuremberg Party Congresses. But these four rays signalled the four standards of Moral Re-Armament: Absolute Honesty, Purity, Unselfishness, Love. MRA, launched in the East this spring, had been brought to the West Coast by Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman and 1,000 followers, many of whom traveled across the land on a 22-car "MRA Special." In the Hollywood Bowl, the Buchmanites sat on the stage...
...thereupon Mr. Hoover let it be known that he neither endorsed MRA nor denied endorsing it. Read again was the message President Roosevelt sent a recent MRA meeting in Washington. Thirty-three U. S. Governors let their names be used as subscribing to a statement that "Moral Re-Armament is our most urgent need...
...also the Comte de Saint-Cloud, tells a tale of high adventure in a style which intermittently suggests Ouida, Ernest Hemingway, Henry James, E. Phillips Oppenheim and P. G. Wodehouse. Between fashionable adulteries unrolls the story of Johnnie's employer, Chance Winter, an Englishman with world-wide armament connections which he uses to promote the subversive ends of an international secret organization. Suave and ruthless, Winter eventually meets an appropriate fate...