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This week Father Coughlin celebrates his 48th birthday, in a new and spectacular way. For him will be held "Birthday Balls," like those for President Roosevelt. In Brooklyn, a Coughlin stronghold, an "American Citizens Committee" will hold a party whose proceeds (tickets 50?, box seats $1) will go to Father Coughlin, who will address the party by wire...
...there is one town north of the Mason and Dixon that makes an art of looking backward, it is the venerable stronghold of entrenched society, Newport...
...Famous British stronghold on the continent of Europe...
...Kladno, 18 miles northwest of Prague, live Czech coal miners and steel workers.* The town was known in free Czecho-Slovakia as a Communist stronghold and since the German occupation has been the centre of a quiet but effective sabotage campaign against German rule that has everywhere tried the short tempers of the new masters of Bohemia. Bilingual Czech waiters have suddenly "lost" their knowledge of German when waiting on German customers. Czech school children have mimicked the German Army goose step-and grownups have had to pay for the mimicry with jail terms. Czech girls who date German soldiers...
That a portion of the Harvard Faculty, that stronghold of virulent individualism, has taken initiative in protesting against the execution of Federal Arts is a challenge to teachers throughout the country. For teachers are not mere pedants whose work is signed, scaled and delivered with a diploma. They are custodians of America's intellectual and artistic life and as such should meet with concerted action this threat to a part of the Arts...