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...There is a mounting tide of conservatism in Protestantism," argues Dr. Ilion T. Jones, retired professor of San Fran cisco Theological Seminary. "I am convinced that an 'evangelical undertow' is rapidly building up in our century and that it must be reckoned with sooner or later...
...best working soldiers in the 27th last week were young (26), blond Captain Martin Merchant of Ilion, N.Y., and Merchant's lead platoon leader, Lieut. Doyle D. Lummis of Waco, Texas. For four long nights, Merchant, Lummis and their men had held the most advanced position on the "bowling alley." Each night, they had heard the enemy tanks, trucks and self-propelled guns approach with a roaring and purring of motors, and a babble of voices. Each night, Lummis and his platoon sergeant had calmly told the artillery and mortars in the rear to get ready, warned the platoon...
...week there slipped completely out of Leftist Spain and over into France three ragged, mud-bespattered Abies & Georgies whose shoes were coming to pieces and who appeared half-starved. The most communicative of these was John Gordon Honeycombe, 37, of Los Angeles, a former U. S. seaman born at Ilion, N. Y. "I remember the last thing my wife said to me when I left her and my six-year-old kid in Los Angeles," mused Mr. Honeycombe. "She said: 'You'll regret the day you left for Spain.' She was right! The whole Republican line -those...
Leaving a $15 bonus offer for the Tonawanda strikers to think about Mr. Rand went to Ilion, where a committee of citizens from both Ilion and neighboring cities were under the distinct impression that the company had threatened to close their plant, too. Mr. Rand soon had the citizens' committee fighting pickets, and some 1,300 in Ilion went back to work. However, as soon as Ilion went back Tonawanda followed suit...
...Rand did not go to Syracuse but Syracuse went to him in Ilion in the form of a businessmen's committee. The committee understood that if workers returned to work, they could have what jobs were left in the Syracuse plant, held out hopes of a big increase in the Syracuse payroll by autumn. Great was the Syracusans' surprise, therefore, when Remington-Rand issued a statement which explained a great deal about the strike...