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...public meeting at New York's Carnegie Hall, staged by the non-partisan Council for Democracy. In stage-Lincoln voice, Actor Raymond Massey read a unity plea by Poet Stephen Vincent Benet. Unity speeches were made by Attorney General Robert H. Jackson, Selective Service Director Clarence A. Dykstra, Columnist Dorothy Thompson, Labor Leader George M. Harrison, Industrialist Howard Coonley, Newscaster Raymond Gram Swing, Citizen Alfred Mossman Landon...
...months ago Sinclair Lewis went touring in his native Middle West, scene of Main Street, Babbitt, Elmer Gantry. One day in Madison, Wis. he met University of Wisconsin's President Clarence A. Dykstra, took such a fancy to academic life that he impulsively offered to teach Wisconsin's students without pay. President Dykstra agreed...
...wastebasket had been replaced by the huge glass jar from which draft numbers were drawn in 1917. Photographers' lights beat upon 8,994* blue capsules in the jar, shedding a blue radiance on the stage. Selective Service Director Clarence Addison Dykstra and Brigadier General Hershey walked in. Slowly behind them came President Roosevelt, on the arm of his secretary "Pa" Watson. The blue-suited President looked tired, grey, exhausted by his campaign. Said he to the nation (paraphrasing a favorite phrase of Wendell Willkie) and to the 17,000,000 registrants who were about to have their numbers drawn...
...last week. On registration day, as 17,000,000 might-be soldiers lined up for the draft, red-nosed, irascible General Hugh Samuel Johnson (who managed the last U. S. draft in World War I) sent out a column in which he said that Conscription Chief Dr. Clarence Addison Dykstra had turned up "on the rolls of the Dies Committee, all tangled up with the heads of Communist organizations," accused General Oliver P. Echols of overstepping his authority in rejecting Captain Elliott Roosevelt's resignation (TIME...
Some papers (including the New York World-Telegram, St. Louis Post-Dispatch) dropped Johnson's column that day. Others (Chicago Herald-American, Detroit Times} printed it. Dr. Dykstra said that, as far as he knew, he had never been mentioned in a Dies Committee hearing...