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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other American republics, but held his hand. It seemed he had fired for peace all the ammunition left in his locker. Next move would be to recall Congress, ask it to revise Neutrality. But that move he could not well take before actual war broke and its form was known. Meantime, should formal war be declared, he was bound to withhold from its angers all U. S. weapons (above calibre .22) and ammunition, from pistols through planes, motors and warships to flamethrowers, to the belligerents...
...Missouri's G. O. P. boss, Barak Mattingly and promised him to speak in St. Louis in October; he shook hands with 200 leading Illinois Republicans; on a high school athletic field he prayed for world peace. Each day he was photographed in every front-porch-campaign pose known to the prosaic U. S. press...
...Governor Dudley signed a charter which gave to the "President & Fellowes" of Harvard College, a self-perpetuating body known collectively as The Corporation, the power "to make from tyme to tyme such orders & Bylawes for the better ordering & carying on the works of the College as they shall thinck fitt...
...Mickey the Dude," as he is known, earned himself some notoriety last fall by personally trying to break up a fake Nazi parade which was an initiation stunt by the Lampoon, College humorous magazine. For his pains he was rewarded by a much-publicized kick in the pants...
...York State. After the Mormon bank in Kirtland, Ohio failed during the panic of 1837, mobs in Ohio, Missouri and Illinois tarred & feathered Smith, lynched his followers. Non-Mormons envied the prosperous, fast-growing Mormon city of Nauvoo, feared a well-trained Mormon army of 5,000 men, and known political influence, which Lincoln and Douglas were glad to curry. Only during the Mormon pogroms that culminated in Joseph Smith's murder by lynch mobs in Carthage, 111. in 1844, was polygamy added for the first time to the list of Mormon iniquities. The charge was true enough, Prophet...