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...included women in business (Bread), birth control (Seed), radical youth (Bricks Without Straw); of a heart ailment; in Palo Alto, Calif. Brother of the late Author Frank Norris, he was the husband of Author Kathleen Norris, who was in many ways his exact opposite number: she was an America Firster, a Democrat, Catholic and dry, he a rousing interventionist, Republican, Episcopalian and dispenser of highballs to their ranch guests...
...Near the center of it was Juan Domingo Perón, Vice President, Minister of War, Secretary of Labor and Welfare, master of President Farrell and dominant figure in the military government. Perón has apparently swung from extreme to moderate nationalism. That is, as a devout Argentine-firster, he no longer considers either hatred of the Yanquis or bundling with the Axis indispensable to his career. Hull's blast inferentially called for a governmental house cleaning of all pro-Axis personalities, a national house cleaning of all German business enterprises. Perón threw some Axiphiles...
...niece of Chicago's mighty America Super-Firster, Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, last week told what she thought of her uncle and his Chicago Tribune. At the same time the leftish monthly Common Sense (cir. 12,500) of which she is publisher and mainstay (estimated annual losses: $25,000), published an article by Milton Mayer. Wrote he: "If the people of Chicago hated the Tribune, they would break the [reading] habit with little difficulty. . . . They know [it] distorts . . . news, omits some more...
...beatings, blood lust and bombings have been getting the headlines, Economist John T. Flynn has been burrowing deep into pre-fascist history for the story behind the headlines. His findings, as set forth in As We Go Marching, are a model of pamphleteering clarity. For onetime America-Firster Flynn strikes a deadly parallel between what happened in Italy and Germany and what is now happening in the U.S., proving-to his own satisfaction, at least-that it can happen here...
...Politics Firster Vandenberg quit placing his party ahead of his country. A lot of us citizens will cheerfully vote for a fourth term, thank you, rather than elect a glamorous general who has shown neither taste nor talent for the Presidency...