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But in Burton Wheeler's lexicon, "everything" did not yet mean much of anything. He was for rearming the U. S., against letting the U. S. Government arm the desperate Allies ("I would have no objection, but we should be careful not to ... involve this country in war"). What...
Trouble at Kennebunk began when patriotic natives concluded that Witnesses were spreading subversive doctrines. When a threatening group marched to "Kingdom Hall," flimsy frame headquarters of the Witnesses, late one night, two got potted with buckshot. Next morning a mob of 2,000 set fire to Kingdom Hall. Police clapped...
Last week was Moral Re-Armament Week in San Francisco. MRA (or the Oxford Group or Buchmanism) seemed to have found in California its appropriate spiritual home. A hit-&-run sect which had done better at raiding than remaining, MRA and its guiding "Soul Surgeon" Frank Buchman had now been...
Bob La Follette jumped to protest. "I very much dislike even to appear disagreeable," crooned Bob Reynolds. Reminded that his previous amendment left a few jobs open to aliens, he stripped his prohibition down to employment of Nazis and Communists. A few Senators ventured that under Senator Reynolds' terms...
Conscription has the sole advantage of preparing the country for future contingencies. Against this must be set the many trenchant disadvantages of the plan. The first and most important is that inauguration of military training would be the biggest possible stride towards participation in the present European war. A huge...