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...plans to hold a sideshow series of meetings, with speeches by such people as Socialist Norman Thomas (a Presbyterian minister), the C. I. O.'s Homer Martin (onetime Baptist preacher), Howard ("Buck") Kester of the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union (Baptist minister), Negro Lawrence Oxley of the U. S. Department of Labor, Roger Baldwin of the American Civil Liberties Union...
Nowhere Bound (by Leo Birinski; Birinski, Inc., producer) includes in its overstuffed cast characters named Tomski, McTavish, Schwartz, Grasso, Maureen, Basil Oxley, Ipolita Romanescu and A Young Turk. This polyglot crew is traveling involuntarily across the continent in a sleeping car on a special Government train. When they reach Ellis Island they are all to be deported as undesirable aliens. With this novel background, Playwright Birinski manages with considerable grace to produce a number of situations no less novel...
...Social Ideals. One passage favored repeal of legislation against "physicians and other qualified persons" disseminating contraceptive information. Another passage said guardedly that the subject should be "re-examined dispassionately." Presbyterian Rev. Dr. David de Forest Burrell moved to strike out both passages. In their defense, Presbyterian Dr. William Oxley Thompson, president emeritus of Ohio State University, said: "Presbyterians practice birth control more than they practice anything else. In our universities there are thousands of young people who are discussing this important problem far more seriously than we. . . ." Methodist Bishop James Cannon Jr. objected to the phrase "and other qualified persons...
...Earl of Derby here for the Kentucky race; 3) U. S. Circuit Court Judge John Johnston Parker, Supreme Court rejectee; 4) Frank Morrison, secretary of the American Federation of Labor with a plea against curtailed Navy Yard employment; 5) Professor Enrico Glickenstein, Polish drypoint etcher; 6) Dr. William Oxley Thompson, president emeritus of Ohio State University; 7) Theodore Roosevelt, Governor of Porto Rico, asking for a $3,000,000 relief fund; 8) Charles C. Younggreen, president of the Advertising Federation of America and delegates to the Federation's Washington Convention; 9) Lewis A. Yancey, U. S.-to-Rome flyer...
Last week, like other Presidents before him, he wrote and released a personal let ter to an old friend. It was an exposition of his Presidential philosophy, a broad de fense of his policies, his credo of politics. The friend was Dr. William Oxley Thompson, 75, for a quarter of a century president of Ohio State University, now its President Emeritus. Dr. Thompson, once Moderator of the Presbyterian Church, had sent President Hoover a belated New Year's message in which he deplored, in mellow, age-ripened words, the present "mob-mindedness" of public life, the self-interest of those...