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...Magnus Johnson, great-voiced Senator and farmer from Minnesota, delivered a speech on Peace which was broadcast from Washington by the Radio Corporation of America (WRC). In part, he said: "Peace is more conducive to happiness than is war. . . . My idea about bringing about peace is: When disputes between nations arise they should take time to get together and talk things over before they rush at each other's throats...
...Irwin McDowell, Dr. Harry A. and James R. Garfield, sons of the late President; also Theodore, Archibald and Kermit Roosevelt, sons of the late President; also Charles and Robert Taft, sons of the Chief Justice; also Richard Cleveland, son of the late President; also Colonel George Harvey; also Senator Magnus Johnson...
Before them was presented The Pilgrims of 1924. Afterwards Calvin Coolidge, Sr., spoke? not to mention Colonel Harvey and Magnus Johnson. But their words in this company must remain unknown, partaking of the nature of professional confidences, exempt from repetition before the public. What passed in those confines is not to be revealed in history...
...Pilgrims of 1924, which was in part history and in part a sort of dramatized cartoon. Therein Pilgrim Father Frank W. Stearns?with Elder Henry Cabot Lodge, Elder John W. Weeks and other official caricatures?adventured in the wilderness with blunderbusses. Sorely were the Pilgrims harassed by Big Chief Magnus Johnson with his Indians, who demanded of the Colonists: "Does anybody here speak Swedish...
...book is based on personal interviews and data furnished by Professor Steinach himself and several of his disciples, including Dr. Peter Schmidt, of Berlin; Dr. Harry Benjamin, of New York; Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, of the Institute for Sexual Science, Berlin, and Dr. A. S. Blumgarten, chief of the endocrine department of the Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, who has written a sympathetic introduction. It will not settle the scientific status of "rejuvenation" methods, but will doubtless have a ready sale among romantic laymen and laywomen...