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Albert Einstein, gentle genius, staunch individualist, proposed to a Manhattan meeting of intellectuals a worldwide union of brainworkers. Objectives: 1) economic security;* 2) political power. Objected Fordham's president, the Rev. Robert Ignatius Gannon, S.J.: "Dr. Einstein is a symbol of the mental confusion he is trying to remedy...
...might be done, he pointed out, by distributing food through the schools and thereby building up a new faith in the educational institutions. Greatest danger to post-war schemes is the group of Germans aged from 15 to 40 years who have lived through Hitler's rise and are staunch advocates of Nasiam...
Roosevelt would be mistaken to look on Flynn's rebuff as a slap in the face of the Administration. The balance of power which turned the scales against this appointment was in the hands of men who have been staunch supporters of the President in his whole foreign policy...
Among those to founder in the Republican flood are such staunch Administration supporters as Senators Josh Lee, Parentis Brown, and George Norris; among those riding the tide to victory are such consummate Roosevelt-haters as Tom Dewey, Ham Fish, and "Curly" Brooks. Read as a chapter in American politics the 1942 elections stand as a clear-cut blat in the face of Democratic President Roosevelt--his severest and most significant check since his first election ten years...
MOSCOW--German tank and infantry charges broke up against staunch Red Army barricades in the streets of Stalingrad yesterday, but Axis forces striking down the Black Sea coast of the north-west Cancasus overran two inhabited localities, a Soviet communique said today...