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United World Federalists, boasting wider public support than Streit's Atlantic Union Committee and some just as well-known backers,*would work out its proposal through U.N. The Cord Meyer group argued that Streit's proposal would split the non-Communist world, create a group of unhappy and neglected "Jim Crow" democracies. Under the Federalists' plan, the U.N. itself would be transformed into a world government. If Russia stayed out, the other nations would go ahead with their organization anyhow. No one but a bemused dreamer expected Russia would stay in in good faith. Streit...
Eleaza Williams 1L, Cord Meyer, Jr. Junior Follow and former president of the Federalists, and Dean Emeritus Holmes of the Graduate School of Education also appeared in favor of the resolution, which has already been passed in six states...
From the prison records, Ellis gets the condemned man's height and weight, then computes the distance the victim must drop to meet the legal requirement that three cervical vertebrae be fractured or dislocated to snap the spinal cord and bring quick death. Ellis does not see the prisoner until a few minutes before the hanging when he steps into the death cell, quietly says "good morning" and straps the man's arms behind his back...
...Goodyear plant would be healthy for the Benelux economy, giving a new source of employment. And local revenues would increase still further when Goodyear's plant started buying such Benelux raw materials as rubber from the Belgian Congo and the former Netherlands East Indies, and rayon and cotton cord from Belgium and The Netherlands. Another potent argument was the undisclosed sum Goodyear offered for a 45-acre site 18 miles north of Luxembourg City, the duchy's capital. The land belonged to Grand Duchess Charlotte herself. Last fall she agreed to sell...
Others were working towards much the same goal by somewhat different paths: ex-marine Cord Meyer Jr., whose United World Federalists was designed to transform the U.N. itself into a world government; Hamilton Fish Armstrong, editor of Foreign Affairs, who urged the "faithful members" of U.N. to bypass the Soviet veto and go on about their pressing business; Ely Culbertson, high priest of contract bridge, who wanted an international land, sea and air force (drawn principally from small nations) to prevent aggression...