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...invasion bogey-man was sold us last spring and summer. Despite the dissenting voices of such competent military observers as Hanson Baldwin, it was palmed off on us by a slick bunch of gold-brick artists with President Roosevelt as sales manager. Yet common sense tells us that if England can hold off invasion, we, who are three thousand miles further away and three times as big, are in no terrible danger. The surrender of the British fleet is a very remote possibility. Nevertheless, millions of Americans have swallowed the yarn of invasion, while its originators talk cynically of "defense...
With the Dartmouth game in the offing and the vision of the first major victory of the year hovering over the practice field, Coach Dick Harlow, in open defiance of the injury bogey, pitted his "A" and "B" squads against each other for a driving 30 minute scrimmage yesterday afternoon on Soldiers Field...
Intervention in Europe to prevent Hitler from directing his next blitzkrieg at the United States has a 'certain fascination for the man on the street," McKay attacked "this bogey of invasion" both from at technical and a political point of view and questioned whether "any one state will find itself sufficiently footloose to wage war in the Western hemisphere...
...attribute to Mr. Greene the most blatant sort of insincerity. At the very least, it requires imputing to him a certain amount of unconscious hypocrisy--an over-readiness to squirm out of a previous decision in Mr. Browder's favor. Only by reading between the lines can the bogey of suppression be conjured...
...such a treasury-busting law as Colorado's. Safe & sound sat Ohio full of colleges and memories of Presidents. But last week, in spite of its stout constitution and sound heredity, Ohio was scared stiff that it might be going crazy. What scared Ohio was not only a bogey called the Bigelow Plan. Worse was the bogeyman himself-Herbert Seely Bigelow...