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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Borah stood for the Isolationist "peace bloc" who see only one means to stay out -retention of the embargo. Next night the nation listened to Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh (see p. 14) who represented nobody, yet everybody, in a simple monosyllabic address whose refrain was only: "Stay...
...Their votes and influence only two months ago had balked a then-irritable and often angry Franklin Roosevelt as he sought the embargo's repeal. They had forced adjournment without new neutrality legislation. And Borah had been their spokesman, as he quietly insisted in a White House night conference that he knew there would be no war-his sources of information were "better than" Secretary Hull...
Distant in kin but near in spirit to Louisiana's late Huey Pierce Long is his California cousin, Minor Pierce Long. Round, pink-faced Mr. Long is a Missourian who went west and into the dairy business, picked up extra money lecturing on what he calls "metaphysics." One night in 1933, he now recalls, he woke up with an idea for an economic cureall, forthwith explained it to his wife and two daughters. They did not understand it. Minor Pierce Long nevertheless went ahead with his Ray System Corporation, Inc. As has many another fiscal dreamer, he proposed...
...Isolation (see p. 12), Elder Statesman Henry Lewis Stimson for traditional neutrality. These and many another who joined issue were professional exponents of known views. None owned a fresh voice to bespeak the people's horror of war. But at 10:45 o'clock (E.D.S.T.) one night last week that voice was heard, the voice of the one U. S. citizen who could command a radio audience comparable to Franklin Roosevelt...
...alive five, seven, or ten years from now will have a task of reconstruction, the labor of creating a world in which men can live decently together," Archibald MacLeish, Librarian of Congress, told nearly 1000 Freshmen who jammed the main dining room in the Union last night...