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...yielded a few points to the Legion; now, he hopes, Amber will meet less resistance in neighborhood theaters, where the Legion's disapproval might take greater effect. "Certain . . . eliminations" have been made and there is a moral-pointing prologue: "This is the tragic story of Amber St. Clare. Slave to ambition, stranger to virtue. Fated to find the wealth and power she ruthlessly gained wither to ashes in the fires lit by passion and fed by defiance of the eternal command. The wages of sin is death...
When the House convened next day, the wrangling began all over again. For six hours that afternoon and six the next, the debate ranged over familiar, barren ground. Michigan's Clare Hoffman, who is bitterly isolationist and antiCommunist, rose up to quote from Washington's Farewell Address: "Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground?" Then, quite unpredictably, he branded the danger of world Communism "a false doctrine...
...train's backers might well have assumed that their project would be as free of criticism as the Barnum & Bailey Circus. But no; the attacks had already begun. Michigan's Congressman Clare E. Hoffman, a hard-shelled, far-right Republican, at once denounced it as a Democratic "buildup for 1948." Illinois' 81-year-old Adolph Sabath, a Democrat, complained because no copy of the Wagner Labor Act was included in the exhibits. In Henry Wallace's New Republic, Langston Hughes, Red-winged Negro poet, heaved a shrewdly aimed rock...
...Kindergarten and first-grade enrollments were bulging with the first war babies to reach school age. Babies who passed their infancy in these hectic times, warned an Ohio psychologist, are apt to be jittery about such a violent novelty as school. Dr. Clare W. Graves of Western Reserve University advised parents to watch for such signs of nervous tension as mouth-tugging and hair-pulling. After a couple of weeks in school, kindergartners are apt to go on talking jags; the only thing for parents to do then, said Dr. Graves, is to grit their teeth and listen sympathetically...
Police hunted him. His father tried to shelter Arthur, but the house on Clare Street was not safe enough. On New Year's Eve 1918, he left his father's house and took the mountain path up Aberdare. He walked all night and all day into the New Year till he saw the little mining town of Maerdy in the valley below. It was there that Arthur Horner's vindictive rise to power began...