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...East"; Lindbergh haranguing the crowds about "new leadership"; everywhere the lines are being drawn more sharply, and the gap between isolationist and interventionist is steadily and alarmingly widening. Max Lerner, who is usually pretty well up on those things, has estimated that 25 per cent of the people are rabid interventionists, 25 per cent are steadfast isolationists, and 50 per cent are in the middle, but following the main trends of the Roosevelt foreign policy...
...Army found out last week that it could not do its housecleaning without raising political dust. Congressional pals of officers whom the Army swept out began to raise dust aplenty. Dustiest squawk came from Missouri's Senators: rabid Isolationist Bennett Clark and obedient New Dealer Harry Truman. The Senators were aroused because Truman's cousin, 61-year-old Major General Ralph E. Truman, credited with saving the 35th Division from a rout at the Argonne Forest in World War I, had been relieved of his field command by Lieut. General Ben Lear, assigned to head the reclassification board...
...Buckeyes' record gives Ohio's taxpayers a chance to crow. Supporters of the State University and its most rabid football rooters, citizens last winter demanded that Ohio State hire Paul Brown, a 32-year-old high-school coach, to replace Francis Schmidt. At Massillon (Ohio) High School, Brown had chalked up a record of only one defeat in 60 games. No one expects him to steer the Buckeyes through the season undefeated-with Northwestern, Wisconsin, Illinois and Michigan still to play-but on his record so far Upstart Brown has done the outstanding coaching job of the year...
Wiseacres call the Bears "good old Halas U." But Owner Halas, like the late Jake Ruppert of the nonpareil New York Yankees, is satisfied with nothing short of perfection. On the bench he fumes and curses. His wife Minnie is nearly as rabid...
Wood, accompanied by Sam Pettengill, former Indiana Congressman and a rabid Roosevelt-hater, took over Wheeler's office as headquarters for a lobby against the impending Neutrality amendments. (The last private citizen who invaded a Congressional office to bore at legislation from within was John L. Lewis: he moved into Speaker Bankhead's office during a fight on amendments on the Walsh-Healey Act. When Congressmen found out about it, they raised the roof. If anyone has tried it since, he has kept it dark.) First plan had been to hold a big lunch in the House restaurant...