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...arrangements were published in "the same way: not as a six-weeks' bestseller, but as a work which through sheer merit and a halfway decent publishing job would sooner or later make its way into the black keys-I mean figures. I would appreciate your printing this little manifesto for two reasons: 1) Lest Papa Godowsky (who reads TIME) misinterpret our motive. 2) Lest the thousands of composers among your 600,000 readers deluge Brother Hilb with their manuscripts. Then, if this letter is not already too long, may I make an extremely mild protest at your emphasis upon...
America for the Americans! What meaning can such a shining manifesto have for the callous citizens who too long have listened to the deluding calls of the sirens! Reds are allowed to attack openly such venerable institutions as Wall Street itself, which was good enough for Alexander Hamilton and should be good enough for us. What have our weak, corrupt, immigration authorities to say about the presence in this country of Father Coughlin, the Canadian-born, the arch-alien, un-American Pied Piper, with his wicked song about a central bank? Soviet Russia has a central bank, and Josef Stalin...
...America for Americans" is the fine new demand made to all patriotic Freshmen yesterday by the Veterans of Future Wars in a "manifesto" followed by a petition pledging support. Besides the retroactive bonus demand, the manifesto threw open the Home Fire Division (burning not shooting) of the V.F.W. to all mothers or future mothers of male children who, they naturally demand, must be sent to France immediately as partial compensation for the inevitable loss of their future husbands...
Only a little more explicit than the warnings issued to German voters everywhere was the manifesto by the Nazi leader of the Berlin suburb of Klein-Machnow...
...hypocrisy!" At Vassar an auxiliary called "Association of Gold Star Mothers of Future Veterans" (later changed under public pressure to "Home Fire Division") demanded free transportation to Europe "to view the future burying ground of our dead," a program supported by "National Commander" Gorin in a second, copyrighted manifesto. At City College in New York an association of Foreign Correspondents in Future Wars organized to dun the Government for money "to establish training courses for members of the association in the writing of atrocity stories...