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Three-quarters of a century ago in Portland. Maine, a fierce form of religious fervor overtook a hardshelled Yankee named Andrew J. Johnson. Seeking out his young brother-in-law, Johnson accused him of writing songs in league with the Devil and, thrusting out his self-righteous chest, shouted: "I am bound to be a soldier in the army of the Lord! Glory! glory, Hallelujah!" Thomas Brigham Bishop, a farm-boy from the village of Wayne, jokingly set his brother-in-law's tirade to music. As popular as any popular song, Glory, Glory, Hallelujah was sung...
Although the Chamber of Commerce was unduly harsh in its recent criticism of the New Deal, its indiscretions lay in the direction of its uncompromising hostility to social reform. In its denunciation of the dilly-dallying financial policies of the administration the Chamber expressed the righteous impatience of all businessmen. If any permanent recovery is to be made, capital will have to reinvest but it seems hardly likely to do so until the burning issues, which the government contemptuously ignores, are settled on a secure basis...
...road to peace. . . . And beset it with terrors. It claims a measure of armed power which puts most of the nations of Europe at its mercy. Every reflecting, reasonable German must see the force of the point I am making". ... I have written in regret, not merely in self-righteous condemnation. The door to honorable agreement ... is still open. . . . No one but Germany itself will close...
...will deny that the tradition of lynch law is the most disfiguring scab on the face of the United States. It comes with the moronic level of intelligence of an infuriated mob. Slow education in reverence for legal procedure can alone remove the curse. A self-righteous and strong-arm policy on the part of the Washington government can have no other outcome than inflaming an already irritated section of the country. There are already encouraging indications of the Costigan-Wagner bill floundering under the weight of its own quixotism...
...Department of Agriculture Brain Truster Rexford Guy Tugwell drafted such a stringent bill to revamp the old Federal Food & Drugs Act that manufacturers who stock the shelves of drug stores and groceries were thrown into a political panic. Hearings were held at the Capitol and self-righteous witnesses on both sides of the issue beat their breasts and shouted their convictions. But up to this week nothing really happened because Congress was too busy washing other dirty linen...