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...What Democracy Means to Me" will be the topic of discussion at the initial meeting of the Adams House Town Hall group Monday evening at 7:30 o'clock in the Upper Common Room. Introductory speeches by Raphael Demos, associate professor of Philosophy, Richard B. Schlatter, instructor of History, Overton H. Taylor, lecturer in Economics, and Russell A. Nixon, instructor of Economics are scheduled. An open discussion from the floor will follow...
...Called by President Roosevelt "the most important defense action since the Louisiana Purchase of 1803" was: 1. The Overton Act to fingerprint aliens. 2. The swap with Britain of 50 old U. S. destroyers for Atlantic naval bases. 3. The fortification of Guam. 4. The Rush Act to confiscate U. S. plants in war time. 5. U. S. purchase of Rolls-Royce plane patents...
...Senate bill, to 21-to-45. Result: to get 800,000 men in the next year, the Army would have to call only one registrant out of 23. But the floor managers could see this was not enough. The Senate had seized at a straw -the Overton-Russell amendment giving the President a club over recalcitrant defense industries-which would permit Senators to argue on the stump that they were drafting wealth as well as men. The House wanted a straw...
Likeliest deal shaping up was that Administration leaders would kill the waiting period in return for giving the House 1) its age limit, or 2) its version of industrial conscription instead of the Overton-Russell amendment (leasing instead of condemnation...
...issue is the form of Government under which we shall live, the way of life for which we shall stand. ... I put this question to him directly: Is he for or against the Overton-Russell amendment...