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Despite these scarehead advance notices, the Freethinkers' meeting resulted in no rows, attracted 900 people, deist or otherwise, who felt in safe enough company with such speakers and endorsers of the congress as H. G. Wells, Sigmund Freud, Havelock Ellis, George Bernard Shaw, C. E. M. Joad. G. D. H. Cole, J. B. S. Haldane, Bertrand Russell, Edouard Herriot, Somerset Maugham. Typical subjects for discussion at the meetings: Science and the Churches; Youth, the Schools and Free Thought; Present Religions Reaction and the Menace of the Vatican...
...personal command of Governor Earle. The chains amassed petitions from their customers, lined up the press and the farmers in almost solid opposition. Once last spring after Columbia Broadcasting System refused to allow speakers to blast the bill in an A. & P. broadcast, big advertisements appeared with the scarehead: THIS is THE STORY THE RADIO KEPT FROM You. Below the condensed versions of undelivered speeches were the signatures not only of the principal chains but also of the Chester County Dairymen's Co-Operative Association, the Lehigh Valley Co-Operative Farmers' Association and the South York County Dairymen...
Cities Gassed? In 1931 Biographer Emil Ludwig published in the Satevepost a scarehead article in which he stated: "Twelve big bombs of Lewisite gas dropped on Berlin or Chicago would be enough to destroy all life in those cities." Chemical officers jumped on this statement as utter nonsense. Author Prentiss points out that to lay down any sort of effective (not lethal) contamination it would be necessary to deposit 10 Ib. of vesicant liquid on every...
...Dealers have been in harping on the Liberty League's friendship for the Republican nominee. Publisher William Randolph Hearst has put a charge of Red fire in his daily blast against the New Deal. Last month Col. Robert Rutherford ("Bertie") McCormick shocked his Chicago Tribune readers with this scarehead: MOSCOW ORDERS REDS IN U. S. TO BACK ROOSEVELT. Featured in the GOPress was the resignation of James Casey as managing editor of Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker because of his disgust with "candidates who speak in the open for Earl Browder and then confer at closed chamber sessions...
German Lloyd's Europa, traveling first class as usual, sleeping under dinin'g room tables, eating leftover cocktail party sandwiches. Shying off the scarehead name of Romanoff, he posed as a Fox Film Co. executive. He tipped the stewards handsomely with Editor Ross's $100, walked down the gangplank behind actress Marilyn Miller (herself an inadvertent stowaway last month on the S. S. Bremen with her new fiance, Film Actor Don Al-varado). To officials who asked for his ticket, he said he said: "My ticket? I've been asked for it twice and given...