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...yellow-belly threw a monkey wrench into everything because they didn't have the guts to play ball with Uncle Sam when he needed them. These Princeton yellow-bellies will probably never be called upon to go to war because their papas will see to that. VERNER C. BECK (18 months in France) Ontario, Calif...
...Florence Roberts) whose two loves are slang and coffee, a complacent wife (Spring Byington), five children who exemplify all the traditionally wholesome traits of youth. Bonnie (June Lang) is the 18-year-old apple of her father's eye except that she goes around with Clark Newall (Thomas Beck), spoiled son of the idle rich. Jack at 17 is absorbed in his first dinner jacket. Roger at 12 is a sharp little banker charging his brothers usury. Lucy at 10 yearns to be another Katharine Hepburn. Bobby at 5 toddles around gurgling "Okey-doke...
...continued rebukes for his nagging by his own old mother, and his 17-year-old son's timely first-aid treatment of a little brother, Pa Jones finally softens up, rewarding the boy with a secondhand car and an ample allowance. The cast, aside from June Lang and Thomas Beck, is not well known...
...North American Wild Life Conference. Conservationist Darling, who resigned as Chief of the Biological Survey last November after a discouraging year and a half spent trying to interest Congress and the Administration in his conservation program, led off the speechmaking. Cried he: "As our esteemed collaborator, Thomas H. Beck, has pungently remarked, 'Ducks don't vote,' and I might add that neither do conservationists. Our scattered and desultory organizations-36,000 of them-have never, to my certain knowledge, influenced so much as the election of a dog catcher. Thirty-six thousand clubs, leagues and associations whose...
...Said Mr. Beck: "In his Farewell Address, George Washington solemnly warned his and all succeeding generations of Americans that the Constitution could be more easily 'undermined' than 'directly overthrown.' Today time gives that prediction proof, and the most effective method of undermining the Constitution is by the doctrine that the Federal Government can usurp the police powers of the states by the simple method of licensing...