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...first meeting was addressed by Allen Zoll. whose American Patriots, Inc. was listed by the Attorney General as a "Fascist" organization. Zoll, said the Journal-Bulletin, charged that the U.N. is "a device to permit the colored races to rule the white races [and that] UNESCO is an alien conspiracy to teach sex delinquency to American schoolchildren...
Individuals are honored by KFDR (Franklin D. Roosevelt), WEVD (Socialist Eugene V. Debs), WABD (Inventor Alien B. Du Mont) and WRGB (Dr. W.R.G. Baker of General Electric). Some stations go in for slogans: the Chicago Tribune has long called itself the "World's Greatest Newspaper," and its radio station is consequently labeled WGN; station WIOD in Miami symbolizes "Wonderful Isle of Dreams," and Atlanta's WSB means "Welcome South, Brother." Other appropriate call letters: the coyote howl of KIYI for Shelby, Mont.; KENO for gambling-mad Las Vegas, and KAVE for New Mexico's Carlsbad Caverns...
...Republicans," whose pro-Negro stand was far beyond that of Abraham Lincoln. In 1866, when President Andrew Johnson vetoed a bill to expand the Freedmen's Bureau (an agency to aid and educate former slaves), Stevens rose in the House and called the North Carolina-born President "an alien enemy, a citizen of a foreign state." In the Senate, Sumner cried that Johnson was "an insolent, drunken brute, in comparison with which Caligula's horse† was respectable...
...ALIEN property custodians may soon be able to sell their controlling interest in the $138 million General Aniline & Film Corp., seized as Nazi property during the war. A five-year lawsuit brought by Interhandel, a Swiss holding company that claims ownership of most of the stock now held by the U.S. Government, has just been thrown out of court for lack of proof of its basic proposition: that all connection with Germany was broken before the war. Interhandel will appeal, but Congress will be asked to pass a special bill letting the Government sell the property anyway...
...hundreds of years." The theme has since been used by such bril liant foes of Communism as Roman Catholic Jacques Maritain, Protestant Reinhold Niebuhr and Skeptic Bertrand Russell. All these see what Driberg and Muggeridge glibly overlook - that battles against heresy may be more critical than battles against completely alien faiths...