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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...letter, whose 57 signatures took up much more space than its text, was delivered to the Army's Adjutant General in Washington. Wrote the citizens of Monroe County, Mich.: "Please permit Private Prochaska to return home. The grain now is ripening and he is the only one in these parts who can run a threshing machine...
Archbishop Beckman's speech set another precedent: he is the first Catholic of his rank openly to show himself an anti-Semite. Emphasizing his words so that they sounded even more anti-Semitic than the text indicated, he echoed some words of Father Coughlin: "Too long . . . the American people have been led around by the nose . . . robbed, kicked and abused by the high-and-mighty masters of international finance. ... It is high time that the Catholic Church in particular and all good Christian-Americans put aside their differences, unite in the common cause of Americanism and . . . put out these...
...Wheeler, protesting extension of the National Guard's year of service. At week's end Major General Clifford Powell announced that this breach of military discipline had been forgiven. Next day the 44th passed through Fredericksburg, Va. From the trucks showered penciled notes-more protest. Sample text: "One year's enough. Send this to your newspaper. . . . Why not take a vote among the National Guard...
...copy of TIME which young Miss R. is perusing is dated July 3, 1939, which dates her as, at the time, not yet four. TIME suspects that her attention is drawn more by the pictures than by the text, but there is no doubt of her interest...
...Said Dr. Edward John Kempf of Wading River, L.I., author of a famed text on psychopathology: "We have a deteriorating social system. We need to come to a reorganization which is more severe." Hitler is to be "congratulated" on the way he set out to eliminate the unfit...