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...heart Englishmen first, last and always, is properly and politely called the British Commonwealth of Nations. In wartime, it is the British Empire. No test applied to its unity could be more certain of positive reaction than the test of Hitlerism: autarchic despotism v. the birthright of freeborn Britons. The British Empire's far-flung parts approached that test last week in different ways. Alphabetically...
A.N.P.A.'s committee on the subject noted only one development in the past year to which it could point with pride: a Supreme Court decision which gave Alma Lovell, a member of Jehovah's Witnesses, and all other freeborn Americans the right to distribute leaflets without first getting a permit (TIME, April 11). And actually it was the American Civil Liberties Union and the Workers Defense League, rather than the A.N.P.A., who had aided Mrs. Lovell. But the Committee on Freedom of the Press, headed by Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune, was willing...
...annual spring appearance of the common housefly seemed the right time for Professor Stanley Barron Freeborn of the University of California to report the color preferences of that ubiquitous pest. It appeared that fly paper should be bright orange, a shade all flies like best; that tablecloths should be pale green, the least liked color. Dr. Freeborn, specialist in sheep & poultry parasites, conducted his housefly balloting by exposing a big rectangular board divided into squares of different colors, counting the number of insects which alighted on each (without taking repeaters into account). The vote: orange, 10,572; primrose yellow...
...demonstrated that the third degree is much more than merely an occasional or a secondary weapon in the hands of the police; it is actually the main reliance of the police in obtaining information from stubborn prisoners. . . . The only place where no protection can be guaranteed [to the freeborn U. S. citizen] is in the police station. Once you pass its green lights you are beyond...
...less innocently Uldine's freeborn glance confessed wonder when she thought of that other day when Dr. Straton introduced her from his already surfeited pulpit as "a sunny-hearted child, apointed with God's oil. . . ." Mrs. Straton claimed she had been suffering with a severe pain in the side, but that it had been relieved promptly by Uldine's prayers...