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Likening present-day religion to the trickling remains of a once mighty African river, Dr. Schweitzer said that idealism has given way to realism: "What is characteristic of our age is that we no longer really believe in social or spiritual progress, but face reality powerless." Identifying idealism with ethics and with "thinking religion," he recalled that this spirit flourished in the 18th Century, that it gave impetus to such reforms as the abolition of slavery, that its great desire was "to make the kingdom of God a reality on earth." But in the 19th Century Napoleon Bonaparte and philosophers...
Thus embittered strikers and embittered employers both determined to fight to a finish. Powerless were Archbishop Hanna and his board appointed by the President. They could "find facts," offer to arbitrate but force no sort of peace. NRA likewise had no power. Said General Johnson in Portland: "The seat of the trouble out here is the fact that, due to cross currents, the shipping industry has no code...
Reason for the sudden peace was that Harry Bridges, Australian chairman of the strike committee, had told his followers that they could not fight machine-guns and bayonets. The President's strike board, Archbishop Hanna, Lawyer Cushing and Assistant Secretary of Labor Mcgrady sat powerless. Nominally the only issue between the employers and longshoremen was which of them should control the "hiring halls" where stevedores are given jobs. But some 15,000 other shipping workers ? stewards, sailors, cooks, pilots?had struck in sympathy. When joint control of the hiring halls had been proposed the longshoremen rejected it because...
Joseph P. Ryan. I. L. A. national president, was powerless as the Board to make a settlement. Said...
...close touch with most of the main political actors; a soldier but obviously no Prussian, he has little love for Hindenburg. His diary is peopled almost entirely with knaves and fools. Nearest approach to a hero is Schleicher, but as even Schleicher's intelligence becomes more & more powerless to stop the Nazis. he is written off as a ''trimmer." Greatest villain of the piece is old Paul von Hindenburg, who is accused of knifing Brü ning, reluctantly abandoning his favorite von Papen, using Schleicher and striking a deal with Hitler-all because of his anxiety...