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...seaways, cause churchmen the greatest alarm. Against them Editor Edmund B. Chaffee published an "Open Letter to the President" in his Presbyterian Tribune. The Christian Century editorialized vigorously. The Department of International Justice and Goodwill of the Federal Council of Churches came out with a forthright protest to the President signed by 200 churchfolk, including some of the ablest bishops, pastors, religious editors, missionary leaders and pedagogs in the land. Rev. Harry Frederick Wrard, Union Theological Seminary professor, declared in a sermon that during the maneuvers might occur the "incident" that would bring on the Japanese war which, said...
...charges made by Caldwell by prominent people from the section to which he refers. . . . . . . Until now no one has taken the trouble to call Caldwell's hand but I think it is now high time to do so.... THOMAS J. HAMILTON Editor The Augusta Chronicle Augusta, Ga. The forthright Augusta Chronicle sent newshawks, accompanied by Erskine Caldwell's father, to investigate Writer Caldwell's charges. The Chronicle's editorial challenge: "Once proven not to be true let's tell the world about it, so that millions of people in this country may not believe that...
Last week it was as Gyp's president that Sewell Lee Avery presided over a stockholders' meeting. Forthright as ever, he briskly challenged a few of the country's most cherished economic notions. It was shortsighted, said he, to think that the U. S. must embark upon a vast building program to restore prosperity. There was far too much building in the last period of prosperity. Home and industrial construction would pick up when & if business activity created a genuine demand for new quarters. What was more, any building revival was unlikely until both material prices...
...Congress the President sent a vigorous message urging an end to the "subterfuge" of ocean mail contracts, the "failure'' of Federal loans for shipbuilding. In their stead he proposed a forthright system of direct subsidies to shippers. ¶At his first press conference after his return to the White House from Hyde Park the President paternally suggested to the assembled newshawks that they buy the Government's new baby bonds (see p. 63). From the back of the room pert Doris Fleeson (New York Daily News), piped: "What with...
...that the "trouble [with the road] is too damn many men wearing the seats of their pants shiny." And under the hard-boiled Joyce management Great Western was one of the few U. S. roads to show a bigger profit in 1930 than 1929. But even for burly, forthright "Pat" Joyce there is a limit to the profits to be taken out of shiny pants. Last week Great Western marched into court, petitioning for a voluntary reorganization under the Bankruptcy Act. Reason: no funds to pay bond interest; no means of borrowing them...