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...Massey '42, Moline, III.; Arthur T. Von Mehren '43, Minneapolis, Minn.; Robert E. Middleton '43, Columbus, O.; Frank G. Miller '43, Le Roy, Kans.; Maynard M. Miller '43, Tacoma, Wash.; Vern K. Miller '42, Milwaukee, Wis.; David H. Mitchell ocC, Campbeilsville, Ky.; Robert W. Moeva '42, La Crosse, Wis.; Elbert M. Moffatt, Jr. '41, Bombay, India...
...hitchhiked home, returned to say: "Mother didn't exactly want me to sign up, but she didn't make much of a fuss. Most every family in our [Fentress] county has had one volunteer. . . ." Then taken by a grinning Army sergeant to Fort McPherson, Ga., Private Elbert Lee Hull was sworn into the Army, explained he had talked things over with Grandfather Louis Hull, but not with Grandfather Louis' distinguished nephew, U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull. "I didn't think it right to ask too much of Cousin Cordell, so I just signed...
...recent years heard more about civil liberties than about the La Follette Civil Liberties Committee. Senators Robert Marion La Follette (Wisconsin) and Elbert Duncan Thomas (Utah) spent $200,000 and four years studying the seamy side of U. S. industry. They uncovered a grubby array of labor spies, gunmen, strikebreakers, provocateurs of labor strife, propagandists, munitionists-and industrialists who bought these seamy services...
Last week Bob La Follette and Elbert Thomas finally had up in the Senate a bill to "give vitality to the rights of free speech and assembly . . . which have been denied by private spy systems and by private force." They proposed to ban i) spying on labor; 2) professional strikebreakers and strikebreaking agencies; 3) armed, private guards anywhere except on company property; 4) the private possession or use of such industrial munitions as machine guns, sawed-off shotguns, gas bombs...
...Sept. 21, 1917, 65 steel executives, whose prices had soared that summer to 370% of the pre-war level, met with the new War Industries Board in Washington. Before them lay a schedule of lower prices which the Board had worked out. Judge Elbert H. Gary of U. S. Steel addressed Judge Robert S. Lovett of the Board. "May I ask," asked he, "by what authority the War Industries Board has undertaken to fix these prices...