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...Rosika Schwimmer, famed war-to-war pacifist (who persuaded Henry Ford to send his "Peace Ship" to Europe in 1915), turned 70 in Manhattan, plumped for world government, laid the blame for war: "Men, women, young people, old people, capital, labor, militarists, churches, educators, scientists," said she, "accuse each other for causing and keeping up the war system they all proclaim to hate. They are all wrong and equally guilty...
...Some famous Holmes dissents: Coppage v. Kansas (1915), which gave employers the right to require nonunion pledges as a condition of employment; United States v. Schwimmer (1929), which denied citizenship to Rozika Schwimmer because she testified at her citizenship hearing that she would not bear arms in case...
...year-old anti-war Polemist Rosika Schwimmer, originator of the Ford Peace Ship plan in 1915, went a World Peace Prize Award of $8,300, collected from 24 countries by an international committee including Albert Einstein, Emil Ludwig, Stefan Zweig, Ignazio Silone. Mme Schwimmer fled her native Hungary in 1920 after political upheavals which ousted her from the national cabinet, was denied U. S. citizenship by the Supreme Court in 1929. A tireless, homeless agitator, she has been freely circularized by her enemies as "German spy, Bolshevik agent and swindler of Henry Ford," by her friends as "the world...
...Harry Low, who promptly put himself in hot water by admitting that he had himself contracted to buy 45,000 shares of his company's stock at $1, a fact not mentioned in the registration statement. To the Commission's counsel, E. Forrest Tancer and H. Victor Schwimmer, this seemed a willful omission-a plain violation of the Securities Act, punishable by fine or imprisonment. Usual procedure in such cases is for SEC to hand over its material to the Department of Justice, but Lawyers Tancer and Schwimmer felt that delay might tempt Mr. Low into Ontario where...
...Oscar II sailed out of New York Harbor one December day in 1915 to end the World War, its rail was lined with the most distinguished collection of naïve idealists the U. S. had laughed at in many a year. Aboard the Peace Ship were Rosika Schwimmer with a black bag full of papers from the Premiers of Europe, Feminist Inez Milholland, Publisher Samuel S. McClure, Judge B. B. Lindsey, Governor Louis B. Hanna of North Dakota, many another headliner of that era. Also aboard was a husky youngster of 21 who was neither distinguished...