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Roosevelt: "Almost, methinks, I am reading not from Macaulay but from a resolution of the United States Chamber of Commerce, the Liberty League, the National Association of Manufacturers or the editorials written at the behest of certain well known newspaper proprietors...
...Last month the New York Legislature, at the behest of the Catholic Church which had just helped close all Manhattan burlesque shows (TIME, May 10), hastily passed a certain Dunnigan Bill. This would have empowered New York City's Commissioner of Licenses to close, singlehanded, any play he considered "immoral," padlock the theatre where it was shown. Mobilized public sentiment persuaded Governor Herbert Lehman to veto the bill last fortnight...
...behest of Oklahoma clubwomen, the State Legislature passed a bill declaring the redbud the State's official tree. One clubwoman, however, believed that the tree on which Judas hanged himself was no tree for Oklahoma. She, Mrs. Roberta Lawson of Tulsa, first vice president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, so telegraphed last week to Governor Ernest Whitworth Marland, who had not signed the bill...
...preserving the Bible and "the oldtime decencies" and still appealing to young people. He began with 132 students, confounded pedagogs who thought he was setting up a Fundamentalist camp-meeting by soon proving that his freshman class averaged eight points better than those in other Florida institutions. At the behest of the Chamber of Commerce of Cleveland (population 9,100), Bob Jones moved his college into an administration hall; auditorium, library, classrooms and dormitories he built with proceeds from preaching tours. Today he has 400 students, 35 teachers, among whom is many a Ph.D. Bob Jones students take a general...
...real name was John Graham of Claverhouse, but the muttering Scottish Covenanters pronounced it "Bluidy Clavers." A gentleman, a hard-bitten soldier, Clavers had come back to Scotland from the Low Countries to see his dying mother, and at her behest stayed on to serve Charles II. His inglorious job was to uphold the unpopular Established Church, put down the dissenting Covenanters with a heavy hand. A misogynist, Clavers was faithful only to his duty. Nearly everyone hated...