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...their backs, did Rev. Calthrop's "Air-Resisting Train" come into its own. With nearly one-third of the country's Class I rail mileage in bankruptcy, with two-thirds of the passenger traffic lost since 1929 to motorcars, busses, airlines, something had to be done. The bogey of government ownership, long the subject of dark predictions by Federal Transportation Co-Ordinator Eastman, loomed ominously close with the introduction of a bill in the Senate fortnight ago to have the U. S. take over in January...
...shadow hung over the Rose Room that afternoon, a shadow which stretched across the continent from a ranch at San Simeon, Calif. It was the shadow of the left-wing professors' No. 1 bogey whose mighty press from coast to coast has been hounding liberal teachers as Reds and renegades to U. S. ideals. The meeting began with Columnist Heywood Broun boxing the shadow as valiantly as he could without naming names. Historian Charles Austin Beard, who once taught at Columbia, followed him. Hawk-nosed, white-haired, clean-shaven Dr. Beard read his speech, made the point that education...
...baggy Heywood Broun who had long been one of the President's most ardent journalistic supporters: "It is impossible to dodge the fact that the newspaper publishers have cracked down on the President . . . and that Franklin D. Roosevelt has cracked up. . . . The publishers have trotted out that old bogey, freedom of the Press. [They] announce that 'a satisfactory adjustment' has been reached. They mean satisfactory to the publishers. . . . The President made no attempt to learn from the Guild its bill of complaints against the stupidities and inequities of the Newspaper Industrial Board. . . . The Government . . . has been held...
...Stannie to prevent the apparently inevitable manage de convenance, Silas Barnaby kidnaps one of the Three Little Pigs and plants a string of sausages in Tom-Tom's house to make it appear that Tom-Tom is guilty of the crime. Tom-Tom is sentenced to exile in Bogey-land but before its inhabitants?miniature King-Kongs with pitchfork teeth?have time to destroy him, the villagers of Toyland discover the real culprit. This leads first to a heroic rescue of Tom-Tom by Ollie and Stannie and finally to a war in which the bogeys are decimated...
Apparently one of the chief bogey-men of the nineteenth century is to be refurbished. The Italian Chamber of Deputies was told by the committee on paid expenditures that "Japan today invades China; inspired by race hatred, she will plan tomorrow against white men." The reason for this revival of the Yellow Peril is, of course, the realization that the realistically minded Japanese have managed in spite of the Washington Treaty to build a field which is, in all likelihood, the equal of any in the world today, and the fact that Japanese commercial competition, particularly in the field...