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...principal effect in Britain of Herr Hitler's latest aggressions has been to bring the ticklish issue of conscription to the fore. Whereas formerly few politicians would touch the subject with a ten-foot pole, last week it was discussed openly. Another Hitler coup and the last conscription-free nation (except Liechtenstein and Monaco) in Europe may go in for compulsory universal military training...
Although the New Deal has striven through AAA I and II to cut crop production for six years, the nation has been steadily faced by a great economic, political, humanitarian dilemma: agricultural plenty existing side by side with human want. To resolve it without dislocating business has proved a ticklish...
...Proposed Statement" and a "Proposed Concordat." The Proposed Statement included nine "Things Believed in Common"-including the sacraments of Baptism and the Lord's Supper-by the two churches, so broadly drawn that none but theological nigglers could object to them. The Concordat raised a more ticklish question. Its chief provision was for a "commissioning" of ministers of either church, to administer the sacraments to members of either...
First time KMOX (St. Louis) invited bald, elderly Rev. Louis Sieck of the Zion Lutheran Church to its Church of the Air pulpit, studio technicians schooled him thoroughly in the ticklish trick of winding up his sermon on the dot. Recently the Rev. Mr. Sieck was invited to KMOX again. This time he knew all the answers. Glancing over his spectacles now and then at the big studio clock as he rolled off his message. Parson Sieck was pleased to fancy that he and the big second hand were finishing in an expert dead heat. "Glory...
...sort of super-press bureau, the New Deal has its so-called National Emergency Council, headed by aggressive Lowell Mellett, ex-editor of the Washington News. NEC does some ticklish inside jobs: e.g., before Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black accepted a medal from the Southern Conference for Human Welfare last November, he phoned Low Mellett to ascertain if public reaction would be favorable. This week Congressman Bruce Barton, Manhattan adman who knows a pressagent when he sees one, introduced a bill to abolish the whole NEC, charging "Its distinguished membership is only a front for a band of 290 pressagents...