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...party's greatest industrialist, Owen D. Young, General Electric's board chairman, appeared in Manhattan to retort to the Republican campaign of fear: "It is no time to make threats. Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions. Threats can destroy business just as they can build barricades. Let no one be afraid-let no one be coerced. . . . The plant manager who thinks he is indispensable to the plant and that no change can be made without ruin is likely to think that the old machine is better than the new, that scientific progress is a myth...
Secretary of the Treasury Mills, No. 1 Hoover stumpster. procured an advance press copy of the Glass speech, engaged radio time immediately following to make a partisan retort. Hearing of this Senator Glass concluded his speech by declaring that Secretary Mills had obtained his copy "by some means which involves a breach of confidence disdained by every honorable newspaper man," and adding...
...Partisans carried placards with such slogans, mocking Theodore Francis Green, 65, lawyer, banker, scholar, Fellow of Brown University and Democratic nominee for Governor. When Mr. Green was picked to oppose Governor Norman Stanley Case for reelection, Republicans softly whispered that he was effeminate. Democrat Green's retort took the form of a full-page advertisement in the rotogravure section of the dignified Providence Journal. In a dozen different poses he was depicted as the "All-round Man"-lawyer, statesman, soldier, traveler, tennis player, public speaker, heman. Three of the pictures showed muscular Democrat Green stripped to the waist-chopping...
...head & front of his church in Mexico. The Pope's encyclical Acerba animi ("bitterness of soul'') of last fortnight, complaining about the Mexican Government's treatment of the church, had stirred angry talk among the irreligious populace, had brought forth a prompt and bellicose retort from Mexico's new young Provisional President...
...handy bogey. Most Mexican ladies (voteless) are pious and good. So are Mexico's straw-hatted peasants, although even Pius XI may not be sure what antique pagan notions linger in their Catholicism. But the men who run things are noisily, bombastically antireligious. Prompt and bellicose was the retort last week of Mexico's new young Provisional President Abelardo L. Rodriguez: "In an unforeseen and absurd manner there has been published the encyclical . . . whose tone does not surprise us because methods filled with falsehood against this country are characteristic of the Papacy. . . . "In answer to the open incitation...