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...droves to the G. O. P.-in Louisiana's third (Sugar Bowl) district, a Democratic candidate for Congress withdrew in favor of Republican David W. Pipes Jr. (a Democrat too until 1940). In Florida Willkie clubs popped up over the State, and a onetime Democratic Governor, Gary Augustus Hardee, took up Willkie's banner. And in Texas Peter Molyneaux's Texas Weekly declared: "There are millions of Americans who do not think President Roosevelt is indispensable, who believe that the wel fare and security of the United States will be better insured by the election...
...medium's cottage along Lily Dale's wooded roads, the ether was crowded with voices. Reported Editor Juliette Ewing Pressing of The Psychic Observer: "The heavenly hosts are pleading with us these days to keep our balance and poise." Plainest talk came from the late Claude Augustus Swanson, Senator and Secretary of the Navy, who for 30 years before his death last July had dogged away at naval preparedness. "Mr. Swanson and I seem to vibrate on the same plane and he speaks to me often," said Mrs. Pressing. "One point, upon which he lays much stress...
...paper invited the U. S. to join the "new strong powers," presumably sit by while Germany licks Europe, and afterward easily and gently seize Canada, Bermuda, the Bahamas, other Imperial leftovers. With Teuton historicity, Das Schwarze Korps recalled such German friends of the U.S. as Baron Frederick William Augustus Henry Ferdinand yon Steuben, who assisted in the Revolution as a topnotch troop-trainer (but who, the paper neglected to mention, had been persuaded to help the U. S. by a Frenchman); and General Carl Schurz, a pillar of the Republican Party in Lincoln's years (who incidentally had been...
...week some of the New Deal's most agile minds wrestled with the surplus problem. One emergency solution seemed to echo the drastic days of NRA. Its sponsors: a number of New Deal braintrusters, worried businessmen, clearing through the State Department's Assistant-Secretary-at-large Adolf Augustus Berle. Economic Fireman Berle and conferees noted that in 1938 Latin America alone grossed about $1,200,000,000 from overseas sales of coffee, meat, sugar, wool, cotton, hides and skins, wheat, corn. Their idea: to form a kind of Hemispheric Surplus Commodities Corporation to buy up these surpluses, store...
...Last week Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh's name was erased from the rolls of the Lafayette Escadrille, which had made him an honorary member after his New York-Paris flight...