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From a dock at Mobile last week a score of bellowing Guernsey, Jersey and Hoistein heifers were swung aboard a ship, Puerto Rico-bound. They were the first tangible results of the most down-to-earth postwar plan devised by a U.S. church. The church was the Brethren (Dunkers*), most of whose 185,000 members are farmers. The project: raising heifers to send to postwar Europe to replace depleted stock, help feed hungry Europeans...
...Brethren Service Committee, which supervises the program from its Elgin, Ill. headquarters, had been in touch with four European governments (Spain, Holland, Belgium, Yugoslavia) which want or will want heifer shipments. War exigencies have prevented any shipments to Europe so far, but the committee hopes that some may go to Spain and France by fall...
Black Army. Before mobilization, the Army had 13,000 Negroes in its ranks. By March 1944, that handful had become an army in itself-some 664,000 Negroes, draftees mostly, who had no more liking for military discipline and the small fleabites of Army life than their white brethren. Most of them were quartered in the South...
Later Dr. Coffin explained his bluntness: "This was my swan song, so I could say what I pleased." Asked if a new moderator could not express himself similarly, he retorted: "Oh, yes. But the number of brethren who pussyfoot is large. What...
...more of our brethren have fallen and succumbed to the lure of the horseflesh. (Cowie will please disregard any implications.) Holmes and Freeman at their first race made stacks of it on paper...