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...your Oct. 28 issue under "Clouts from Clergyman" you give prominence to the reply of the highly gleeful Rev. Charles A. Eaton, now Representative Eaton. I am writing to inquire if that is the same Rev. Charles A. Eaton who during the early part of the World War claimed "this War is the greatest blessing that has ever fallen on mankind since the German Reformation" (Road to War - Walter Millis...
Franklin Roosevelt has been too long in public life not to have left a well-documented trail of opinions on most subjects, including the Constitution, behind him. Republican editors, like bloodhounds on the scent, soon sniffed out and printed with gleeful gusto a speech he made by radio in 1930 when he was Governor of New York. Broadcasting to the nation Mr. Roosevelt had declared: "It was clear to the framers of our Constitution that . . . any national Administration attempting to make all laws for the whole nation, such as was wholly practical in Great Britain, would inevitably result...
...flirtation with her husband, believing him to be Cassini, and Cassini's wife (Merle Oberen) flirts with both, knowing only about half the time which is which. The hectic complexities that result are by no means surprising, and through it all the whole thing reeks with both gleeful and vicious double entendre...
...flirtation with her husband, believing him to be Cassini, and Cassini's wife (Merle Oberen) flirts with both, knowing only about half the time which is which. The hectic complexities that result are by no means surprising, and through it all the whole thing reeks with both gleeful and vicious double entendre...
Last winter a Manchester Guardian correspondent attended a Berlin meeting of the German People's Church. He reported it noisy, enthusiastic, a theological free-for-all. Its members sang the Horst Wessel song, interrupted the speakers with shouts of gleeful agreement. When a Dr. Krause made the usual reference to "pimps and cattle-dealers." they cried "Filth! Laute Schweinereien! Loud swinishness!" When another speaker advocated that preachers of the teaching of "Rabbi" (Saint) Paul should be thrown out, they cried "to Oranienburg!" ? Germany's most famed concentration camp. When the same speaker dubbed the doctrine of atonement, "racially alien...