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Philadelphia Quakers are by no means the only religious folk currently to become alarmed over the martial world in which they live. Largely because so many of them were stampeded into helping fight the last war with word and deed, a substantial number of U. S. clergymen are bending their efforts to keep the nation, or at least themselves, out of the next one. Recent examples...
Certainly President Roosevelt never gave the nation's powermen any false hopes. By word for six years, by deed for two, he has warred on public utilities locally and nationally. That has been the most consistent of the Roosevelt policies. Even so, a thorough reading of the Wheeler-Rayburn bill to abolish public utility holding companies (TIME, Feb. 18) left the industry chilled and dazed. But not for long. Sincerely convinced that the enactment of such stringent legislation would not only wipe out hundreds of millions invested in holding company securities but come very close to wrecking...
...heroism of German soldiers, and setting up a tablet in their honor, Harvard has been insulted, and its chapel defiled, by a wreath placed under said tablet bearing the official mark and colors of the German people. Not only that, but the German representative in Boston did the dastardly deed, under the guise of recognizing Harvard's breadth of mind in honoring the memories of America's former enemies...
...National Student League jumped to the rescue. Tearing the veil of an innocent gesture from Germany's face, it bared the deed in all its enormity. It discovered an insult and a degradation. Harvard is protected...
When he had finished his address, Senator Robinson's fellow-members went climbing over their desks to pump his hand in congratulation for a deed many of them had long lacked the nerve to do. But the price to be paid for trading parliamentary mud with the "Kingfish" was soon exacted. Returning to the fray, the button-nosed Louisianian accused Senator Robinson of double-crossing him on patronage, asserted that President Roosevelt had told him [Long] to keep Senator Robinson "in trouble," revealed that Senator Robinson had made his brother-in-law Federal Rice Administrator in Louisiana. "Threatening...