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...Editor Villard was equally forthright in flaying the Association. Excerpts...
...voice of Dr. Pierce was lifted as soon as he heard of the incident. It took the form of a forthright but courteous open letter to Dr. Ainslie. Excerpts: "I cherish such high admiration for you personally and for your noble efforts to promote the spirit of religious unity that it grieves me to be compelled to differ from you. . . . In my judgment, you have insulted your country, insulted the churches of the U. S. and insulted en masse the chaplains of the Army and Navy. . . . [The U. S. and the churches] did not want the War, did not start...
What gave this statement political significance was the forthright Wet position taken by her November opponent, James Hamilton Lewis, whom Illinois Democrats had last week nominated for the Senate in their primary. " Jim Ham" Lewis is now 67. His famed whiskers are no longer the glittering pinkish red they were when (1913-19) he was a Senator from Illinois, but have turned a silvery grey.* But his speech is as flowery as ever, his manners as ostentatiously courtly, his choice in waistcoats and neckware as vividly colorful. Said he last week of the Republican primary and Prohibition...
...philosophy of annuities for the superannuated, said forthright President Pritchett: "Society does not owe any man a pension. . . . Any pension under which the beneficiary is provided with an old age annuity without cost or participation by himself is, in the long run, demoralizing to any group of men, however high-minded...
...Forthright, easy to understand, is Critic Cortissoz's summary of modernism...