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Dates: during 1930-1939
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LLOYD E. H. VOGLER Syracuse, N. Y...
NEWELL MARTIN (I am 84) Huntington, L. I., N. Y...
...this moved Liberal Caswell to write: "It could well be that a rather severe limitation of liberty and even a censorship might not be too high a price to pay to save democracy from complete destruction." To a liberal group which met last week in a West Philadelphia Y. M. C. A., intolerance of intolerance seemed a contradiction in terms. It acted on its convictions. This Committee for Racial and Religious Tolerance-an organization headed by such men as Quaker Rufus Matthew Jones, Baptist Daniel Alfred Poling, Congressman Francis J. Myers-was in session when 30 hecklers burst into...
...ahead in popularity is squash racquets. Its votaries have increased in number some 5,000% in the last decade. Now there are countless courts in most important U. S. cities, usually in clubs and hotels, but often in Y. M. C. A. and lodge buildings. Favorite short-order exercise for the not too tired business man, a half-hour of squash racquets, which everybody calls squash, is equivalent to three times as much straight lawn tennis. Ideal for winter exercise, it can be learned in six months, is low on breakage and not too strenuous for any active...
...college man, chubby, jovial, Yankee Josiah Hayden had sold spring water in Lexington, Mass., been a Y. M. C. A. leader in France during the War and has occupied himself with "private charity work" ever since. Last year Mr. Hayden opened a two-room office in Boston, installed on his desk a carved black bull a foot high (he says it symbolizes his bullishness on U. S. youth) and began to distribute his brother's largesse. To his office, whose doors are always open, came many thousands of requests for money, some crackpot, some worthy...