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...John Milton Potter, a flashlight symbolizing the torch that has been dropped by his mighty colleague, Samuel Cross, that he may continue to bring light to the dark recesses of the clubwomen's minds...
...sheriff edged up to Pilgrimage Club headquarters, ordered the furious clubwomen to strike their banners, silence their band, close up their mansions. Next day the Pilgrimage Club ladies asked that the injunction be rescinded; the judge acquiesced, gave the rivals five days to plead their cases...
...could smell. Nevertheless, they went to see him, and get a nearer sniff. His small 16th floor suite at a corridor's end in the Benjamin Franklin hotel became a crazy-house, a stifling welter of political amateurs and well-wishers (bond salesmen, debutantes, business bigwigs), gawkers (clubwomen, tourists, thrill-collectors), and disgusted professionals, indignant at their offhand treatment by people who had never heard of them and who even now regarded politicos as casual, unimportant, irrelevant vermin...
Wrangling during its Harrisburg convention on the objectives of national defense, and getting nowhere, 1,100 Pennsylvania clubwomen heard Clarence Streit urge the program of Federal Union. Argued Clarence Streit: The fate of democracy depends on the defeat of Hitler. He cannot probably be defeated without U. S. aid. Military preparedness is not enough; the only force the U. S. can quickly bring to the conflict is a moral and political power. Organizing the democracies in a federal union, with a guarantee that the German people would be admitted to this union when they retired to their frontiers and restored...
Author Streit back for an ovation, the clubwomen voted, 1,092-10-8, to urge the program of a world-wide federal union as the basic objective of U. S. efforts...