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...jampacked meeting on how "current world conditions" affect U.S. women, Publisher Thomas Beck (Crowell-Collier) cried: "The hell with Johnny and his spinach; there are going to be many substitutes for spinach. . . . Are cooking and sewing going to win the war? No! You are going to have to work like men. Industry will win the war. ... If we had less sex distinction, there would be fewer divorces. . . My current wife was making $12,000 a year before she married me, and this ability of hers to do all the things I can do makes her my past, present and future...
...first great undeclared war in U.S. history. There was no sign of strain on his features. Quietly he said that reporters already had the Navy Department announcement; there was no further comment. Would the U.S. break off relations with Germany? Would this first actual sinking of a U.S. warship affect the international relations of the U.S.? No, said the President, with smoke-ring calmness...
...endorsed by the Plan E Committee. "False, completely and utterly false," Reel stated of the publication last night. Reel declared his intension of bringing suit against Daniel F. O'Brien, Democratic Chairman, for $25,000 on charges of libel and slander. "I'm afraid it will affect my chances at the polls tomorrow," Reel stated gloomily...
...Conference decision was hard on the feelings of Georgia students and Governor, but in practical terms it did not affect in the slightest the college operation, nor fortunately its standing in the Southeastern football conference. But repercussions may be serious...
...church must stop being "woolly and wordy," grab "the last chance that it can have for generations to affect the course of history. . . . Christianity is a revolutionary religion or it is nothing. . . . The Church [must] enthuse the young as Bolshevism has enthused them in Russia and Naziism ... in Germany." One reason he considers Christian leadership particularly necessary in Britain: political power has passed largely into the hands of "unimaginative" trade-union heads who "have little interest in anything but hours and wages...