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Sirs: Your issue of Jan. 24 moves me profoundly to send you a word of gratitude. Your clarion call to the conscience of the nation on the evil of lynching is as potent as any sermon on goodwill...
...back his prestige with the Socialist rank & file, Vice Premier Blum judged correctly, was to sound clarion calls for action to achieve such old favorite Socialist "reforms" as nationalization of French railways and to demand that the Senate be made subordinate to the Chamber. "Remember how this was done," cried Orator 'Slum, "in the case of the House of Lords in England...
Promising that the conclave would be "one of the most important, if not the most generally attended of all newspaper conventions in the history of the country," and italicizing the fact that it would be limited to "executives from the home office," Publisher Stahlman & friends summed up their clarion call thus: "[The closed shop] is a most serious threat to a free press, and consequently to the liberties of a free people. Many publishers throughout the country have already expressed the feeling that the newspapers should stand together against this common danger. . . . We cannot urge you too strongly to attend...
Last night's abortive riot of the Freshmen in the Yard was a completely dismal failure, and seems to be a good example of the degeneracy which has set in among the younger generation. In past years the clarion call of "Rheinhardt" was enough to set the manly, virile blood of our predecessors in motion, and spur all good Harvard men into action. But times have changed, and past generations of men are being supplanted by a third rate lot of "wee cowering timorous beasties...
...Admiral of the Fleet, was standing in his splendid Throne Room at Buckingham Palace, receiving the diplomatic corps for the first time since His Majesty's accession. In strict order of precedence, each diplomat was presented by Lieut. General Sir Sidney Clive, a vigorous Court functionary with a clarion voice. In 1919 he was Military Governor at Cologne, cordially hated by its Germans, as were all the Allied "conquerors." Last week German Ambassador von Ribbentrop, instead of bowing to King George when presented by Sir Sidney, clicked his heels smartly together, gave the Nazi salute and cried, "Heil Hitler...