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...Quitter? Coward? Editorial sentiment was overwhelmingly but not unanimously with the fleeing Lindberghs. After a conventional expression of shame and regret, the Milwaukee Journal declared: "We say that after making due allowance for the somewhat peculiar personality of Colonel Lindbergh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hero & Herod | 1/6/1936 | See Source »

Hero Hoare. The vote was not to come until midnight and it was then midafternoon. Sharp at 3:40 p.m. Scapegoat Sir Samuel Hoare appeared. If treachery and cowardice had been shown, he was at least the No. 2 Traitor and the No. 2 Coward. What is known as British fair play won him upon his entry a veritable tumult of cheers from all parts of the House of Commons. His chief accuser, Nobel Peaceman Sir Austen Chamberlain, a pillar of official rectitude and a torch of moral indignation against The Deal, had been saving a place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Hoare Crisis | 12/30/1935 | See Source »

...VOICE OF BUGLE ANN-MacKinlay Kantor-Coward-McCann...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Best Books | 12/16/1935 | See Source »

...where we find Randolph Scott in the role of the forerunner to the modern conscientious objector. He "likes to see things grow," and hates destruction. His mature and civilized ideology run counter to the inflamed and destructive passions of the times. Consequently he is socially ostracized, is called a coward by his beloved cousin (Margaret Sullavan), and is torn by divided loyalties. Before the war is over, he capitulates and joins the Southern side, and then comes the complete transformation into a soldier, whose one dominating instinct is to kill...

Author: By J. M., | Title: The Moviegoer | 11/19/1935 | See Source »

...been sprayed on the fires of the controversy by the public utterances of various public men concerning Dr. Mather's action, He has been characterized as a "moral coward." A state representative in speaking of Mather's action said: "When you realize that the teachers have control of the children about five hours a day, it must be obvious, even to Professor Mather, that the children should be protected from the influence of communism and all disloyal utterances and propaganda...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WRY TEACHER? | 10/19/1935 | See Source »

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