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...rubbed his hands over this report was a tall young Bostonian named Melvin Maynard Johnson Jr. Captain (Marine Corps Reserve) Johnson wants the Army to buy a semi-automatic rifle which he has designed. The Army has tested the Johnson rifle, says the Garand is better, has not published enough comparative data to prove or disprove its statement. "Ideal for combat and for battlefield firing," Major General Walter C. Short called the Garand last week, reporting its performance in Army maneuvers. Expert Ness rates the Johnson far above the Garand...
Most discussed war-financing nostrum in Britain today is John Maynard Keynes's plan for forcing all Britons above the subsistence line to invest fixed percentages of their income in blocked savings accounts. Last week financial men could remind themselves that the Keynes plan has a faint parallel in the U. S. Released were current figures on Henry Morgenthau Jr.'s own public thrift campaign: U. S. Savings Bonds. Voluntary and not for war, the Morgenthau "baby bonds" nevertheless permit the "ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished" third of the U. S. population to share a nation...
...Socialist act was to turn down a motion approving U. S. economic assistance to the Allies as the quickest and surest way to prevent war's spread to this country. Instead, the delegates adopted a plank of strict isolation. Other chief concern of the delegates was unemployment. Keynoted Maynard C. Krueger (rhymes with eager) of the University of Chicago: "We Socialists are not interested in trying to make the Capitalist system work. Hoover and Roosevelt have tried that and proved that it can't be done." Private business representing production for profit instead of production for use, said...
University of Chicago President Robert Maynard Hutchins refused Communist Earl Browder (out on bail pending appeal of his conviction for passport fraud) permission to speak on the University of Chicago campus. Said Hutchins to protesting students: "If the university banned a redheaded man it would be an infringement of civil liberties. If it banned a murderer it would not. This case lies somewhere in between...
...remarked: "A man expects that sort of attacks. It is best to ignore them." Meanwhile, to Earl Russell's defense came City College teachers, the parents of City College students, hundreds of educators, philosophers and clergymen, among them John Dewey, University of Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins, University of California's President Robert Gordon Sproul, Smith's President-emeritus William Allan Neilson, Harvard's Professors Alfred North Whitehead and Harlow Shapley, Princeton's Dean Christian Gauss. In City College's Great Hall, 1,200 undergraduates cheered famed Philosopher Morris Raphael Cohen...