Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That a portion of A. F. of L.'s rank & file prefers to leave its Magna Charta alone, William Green indicated last fortnight. He thought it necessary to appeal publicly to Federation unions and members to trust their leaders, back up the amendments. Undivided support was essential to Messrs. Green & Padway, for their battle was about to come to a crisis...
When Major General George Van Horn Moseley* retired last year, with a roar at the New Deal (TIME, Oct. 10), he sounded like a U. S. Army officer who at last could say what he thought. Roaring around the country since then, he has made sounds something like a U. S. Fascist. Last week, roaring for the Women's National Defense Committee in Philadelphia, George Moseley finally made sounds that could not be mistaken...
...forced the British Government to make this great departure. . . . These recent happenings have, rightly or wrongly, made every State which lies adjacent to Germany unhappy, anxious and uncertain about Germany's future intention. If that is all a misunderstanding, if the German Government have never had any such thought, so much the better...
...heard no more from Adolf Hitler. In Germany, where the people are always commanded to drop whatever they are doing and cluster around when the Führer makes an important speech, a German springtime song, All the Birds Are Here Again, suddenly came over the air. Many Germans thought that an April Fools' Day prank was being played. In the U. S. announcers quickly explained that the Führer's speech had been unavoidably cut off. A rumor that the Führer had been shot even circulated in Manhattan...
...California (whither he was transferred last January), the nation's most notorious criminal attends Roman Catholic Mass, confesses his sins regularly. But, like most prisoners, who will do anything to get out of their cells, he also attends Protestant and Christian Science services. Last month a Baptist minister thought he saw a chance for Al Capone's soul, and plucked it forthrightly. The Rev. Silas A. Thweatt (rhymes with "bleat") of San Pedro, detailed for a service at the prison for the first time, preached straight at the gangster. His text: . . . Died Abner as a fool dieth...