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...true remedy," wrote the bishops, "will be found ... in accomplishing two reforms in our social order. In the first place there must be re-established some form of guild or vocational groups which will bind men together in society according to their respective occupations, thus creating a moral unity. Secondly, there must be a reform of morals and a profound renewal of the Christian spirit which must precede the social reconstruction...
...high spirited Andover crew in the latter's home cage and these two facts should give the Freshmen a ten point handicap. The Crimson is strong in the dashes and runs, depending largely on the support of Doug Pirnie, Don Forte, Ted Graves, Paul Johrde, Fred Phinney, and Ray Guild for points...
...Washington, D. C. a Guild local ignored the Board's letter, nominated Wisconsin-born, 37-year-old, brush-lipped Kenneth Crawford, Washington correspondent for the New York Post. In Denver another local went the Washington Guild one better, put up the name of much nominated* Columnist Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt. Other nominations followed thick & fast, included Milton Kaufman, onetime Executive Secretary Jonathan Eddy, Columnist Franklin Pierce Adams (F. P. A.)-and even (after the deadline for nomination expired) Columnist Westbrook Pegler...
...other candidates declined except Kenneth Crawford. Meanwhile, the New York Guild had looked over Crawford's record, found him eminently suitable, seconded his nomination. So last week, by default, without the formality of an election, Postman Crawford became president of the American Newspaper Guild...
...Guild could have searched long & hard before it found a new president more like Founder Broun. Not physically (a far cry from Broun's genial, hulking mass is six-foot, solid, tweedy Kenneth Crawford) but temperamentally: like Broun, his mind is on the masses, his eyes slant to the Left. One measure of his personal leaning toward Marxism is his book The Pressure Boys, about lobbyists (with many a side crack at publishers and advertisers). In his last sentence, summarizing his beliefs, Crawford writes: "No great progress can be made until the hard-pressed middle classes learn that their...