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Startled readers wondered whether the strange book was a landmark, the first appearance of the Streicher mind in the U. S. Few recognized the name of the author, Theodore N. Kaufman. But in 1939 it had appeared as chairman of the American Federation of Peace, which urged Congress either 1) to keep the U. S. out of Europe's wars, or 2) to sterilize all Americans so that their children might not become homicidal monsters. In step with the times, Sterilizer Kaufman had simply transferred his basic idea to the enemy...
...York Times hailed the Acheson report as a "landmark in the history of administrative reform." The Senate's Judiciary Committee went to work on these reports at once...
...when it is built, Architect Wright's church (see cut} will indeed be a landmark in ecclesiastical design. An integral part of its angular, efficient structure is a triple-decker parking space for the congregation's cars. "It is immoral and unethical to build a structure without providing for the traffic it will attract," Wright told the church board. "You don't want an immoral church, do you?" They did not. Though the building department dislikes its thin walls and invisible heating, it will be the first church in the U. S. to be fully...
...President's loneliness. Few had sought and none had won a third election to the Presidency. Knowing U. S. history as a boy knows batting averages, Franklin Roosevelt knew that he had left the shelter of precedent, had pushed off on a course without chart or landmark. Through the vapor that is the future he could steer only by the North Star of his own purpose...
...Rumania, who left several crates of royal presents, crowned the huge edifice with the words: "There is a dream built into these walls." Sam Hill's dream house, standing out among the surrounding sage brush as incongruously as a top hat in a jungle, became a famed landmark. Some said Sam Hill expected to establish a monarchy in the neighboring mountains. Others hinted that he expected his castle to serve as officers' quarters in a future war with invading Japanese forces. To most Washingtonians it was simply "Sam Hill's Folly." This week, nine years after...