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Last week a younger man, a scholar, editor, lecturer, challenged Oldster Treadway's right to sit longer in Congress, accused conservatives of killing the Republican Party. Pundit Raymond Leslie Buell announced that he would run on a one-plank platform: What is wrong with the membership of Congress and what can be done to improve...
Last week Clyde Reed, choked by Washington inaction, made what his friend William Allen White called a Quixotic gesture. He rushed into the Republican primary for Governor, on a one-plank platform. The plank: the open shop and "fair" labor legislation. When labor leaders in Kansas City accused him of trying to cripple labor, to prevent the closed shop and "enforced membership," forthright Senator Reed replied: "Exactly what I mean. The gentlemen heard me correctly...
...Herbert I. Harris of the Newport Training Station, are equally strict. Recruits come before the psychiatrist when they are worn out from physical tests, completely naked, identified only by a mercurochrome number on their chests. To a tired, jittery "boot," a session with the psychiatrist is like walking the plank. Wary examiners, said Lieut. Harris, are suspicious of boys who speak up first (normal boys are silent until the doctor questions them), those who fail to close the door, or fling down their papers on the table. But regional differences, said the Lieutenant, must be accounted for: a down-east...
...general and ancestor of many another famed parson, statesman and educator. He was the real founder and patriarch of the Lutheran Church in the U.S., was called Gachs-wunga-roracks by his Indian friends because "his words went through the hearts of men like a saw through a knotty plank...
Pearlstein, K. H., Petschek, E. K.; Plank, J. N.; Post, S. H.; Proctor...