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Last week Mrs. Rumsey's Consumer's Board was revealed as a battlefield in which a clash of ideas had virtually stalemated its activities. Though Mrs. Rumsey was the daughter of the late great Railroader Edward Henry Harriman and founded the socialite Junior League, she is no conservative social idler. An ardent liberal with Democratic leanings, she believes in a co-operative commonwealth and the utmost protection for consumers against industrial profiteering. To her board was appointed Professor William Fielding Ogburn, University of Chicago sociologist who worked on Herbert Hoover's mammoth social trends survey. When...
...Bronx, N. Y., Helen Vatale Cerrulo quarreled with her 21-year-old husband Mike, went home to her mother. Few hours later, armed with baseball bats and pick handles, a dozen Cerrulos & friends met a dozen Vatales & friends on a vacant lot. When riot squads cleared the battlefield one Vatale henchman lay still with a fractured skull, another lay dead...
...great nation be robbed by material means of the vital rights which under the divine law of things belong to it. ... From Pacifism has sprung a nonfighting aspect on life. Pacifists wrote of one who died on the field of honor as if he died an unnatural death. The battlefield is for a man what motherhood is for a woman!" Seriously worried, Adolf Hitler summoned his puppet Reichstag to hear a great speech on Germany's foreign situation. Should he back down on rearmament he would lose face in Germany. Should he continue to roar he would draw...
...attack and let them advance almost in front of their lines. Then, with Paraguayans at the 20-yard mark, the Bolivian guns opened up, raking the Paraguayan lines with a terrific fire. The battle was hardly 15 minutes old before about 120 Paraguayan bodies were strewn over the battlefield. Bolivian casualties wore much lighter...
Last week like a generalissimo on the battlefield Senator Thomas was in complete command of the Senate inflationists. Into the silver debate he sent his cohorts -Louisiana's Long, Nevada's Pittman, Utah's King-to make his arguments for him while he sat back and egged them on. When the roll was called, the nation was amazed to learn that 33 Senators plumped for inflation by the coinage of silver-a clear gain of 15 votes in three months...