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Scottish-born Dr. John A. Mackay (rhymes with reply), president of Princeton Theological Seminary, is usually a mild man. But last week his dander was up. A longtime missionary in Mexico, Peru and Uruguay, he well knew that the republics south of the Rio Grande still admit Protestant missionaries, educators and doctors, despite some wartime difficulties. Yet last month the U.S. Catholic hierarchy declared that these missions are "a disturbing factor in our international relations" and are "offensive to the dignity of our Southern brothers, their culture and their religion." Last fortnight the Catholic Digest made further charges (TIME...
...British and the U.S.; to pay more taxes, use less gasoline, strike less often, have his wife go without silk stockings. Federal officials punched the needle into him with alternate injections of numbing anesthetic (to keep him quiet while taxes were extracted) and hyper-stimulant (to get up his dander against Hitler...
...some reason, Ward, an ice-veined 28-year-old Northwesterner who earns a livelihood as secretary of a Spokane "Boosters" Club, was unpopular with the predominantly Omaha gallery. According to widespread rumor, he had made disparaging comments about the Omaha Field Club course. Their dander up, touchy townsmen, 3,000 strong, booed Ward's shots, tried to rattle him as though he were a baseball pitcher. It got so bad President Pierce of the U.S. Golf Association interrupted the match, appealed for better sportsmanship...
...that point Star Publisher Frank Taylor got his dander up. Deciding the Star had a fighting chance, he got the Guild to agree to 15 economy firings-provided he forked over $7,000 cash severance pay. The Star did not have it. The bank refused to lend it-having already kissed its $100,000 Star loan goodby. The Star decided to fold. Then came a last-minute rescue. When the remaining staff pledged part of what severance pay they would get if the paper later folded, the bank agreed to a loan. Publisher Taylor began thinking about a total tabloid...
Over the weekend came the first clear encouragement to those who want him to fight, not chat: Willkie got mad. The smear by the Colored Division of the Democratic National Committee got his dander up. He smashed hard at the "high professions and low performances" of the New Deal. At Schenectady, beside the railroad tracks, he roared to 2,000 people: "The opposition party's strategy has now become perfectly obvious. It is to have the National Committee deal in the lowest type of politics and smear; to deal with the most corrupt of political machines, while the candidate...