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Despite the vain objections of absentee, campaigning Democratic committeemen, Mr. Dies's duty next led him into California affairs. Chief witness from that State was Harper Knowles, who is chairman of the State American Legion's Radical Research Committee. Mr. Knowles is on leave from his job as secretary to the Associated Farmers, an antiunion organization headed by Philip Bancroft, Republican candidate for Senator. Mr. Knowles declared that John G. Clark, Democratic State Campaign Committee chairman, and Ellis Patterson, Democratic candidate for Lieutenant Governor, are Communist Party members; that Culbert Olson, Democratic candidate for Governor, and Sheridan Downey...
...Michigan, the Detroit Newspaper Guild set another precedent when it bought space in the arch-Republican Free Press for a political ad. ''REPORTERS KNOW!" clarioned the Guild. "We have mingled with men and women in the breadlines . . . witnessed big taxpayers' vain attempts to shirk. . . . Frank Murphy MUST Be Re-Elected!" On its front page the Free Press testily explained it had taken the Guild's money only because it believes in freedom of the press, opined that most Detroit newspapermen "are not led by the nose to the ballot box by John Lewis...
...undergraduate publications yesterday fought desperately to keep the wolf from the door, one in vain, as financial disaster faced the Lampoon and the new defunct Monthly...
...Germany, on the contrary, belated discovery that a Nazi, even of the Old Guard, is partly of Jewish blood unleashes anti-Semitic decrees against him, and Germany has seen numberless pathetic cases of Jews professing themselves ardently pro-Nazi in vain efforts to save themselves. Before Adolf Hitler came to power his Brown Shirts regularly took up so-called "voluntary contributions" from Jews who hoped that as contributors they would be spared after the Party took over Germany...
...vain attempt to rescue a fugitive slave he charged the Boston courthouse singlehanded, after one man had been killed and while bullets were still flying, thought so little of the act that he barely noted it in his diary. Of sure taste, he inspired Emerson, recognized Whitman, Thoreau, Melville and Lowell when they were unknown, made critical appraisals of them which still stand. Readers of his Journals will have no difficulty in seeing why Emerson and Hawthorne praised him so highly, are likely to feel it more puzzling that he has been neglected for so long...