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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Politics. Last week, the Legion heard speeches by Secretary of War Woodring, Governor Lehman, William Green (see col. 3). Commander Colmery's Dinner for Distinguished Guests was attended by 1,000, including 15 Governors. Herbert Hoover, following Secretary of State Hull as an after-dinner speaker, made a friendly gesture towards old-fashioned Democrats. Said he: "It would be a distinction to anyone, at any time, to follow Secretary of State Mr. Cordell Hull. . . . He holds our confidence and our good wishes...
Meanwhile last week Mormonism, which unlike Episcopalianism is always an unobtrusively but persistently missionizing faith (see col. 1), set up camp for the first time in a long-neglected corner of the vineyard, New England. In Boston last week arrived Dr. Carl Ferdinand Eyring, onetime physics professor at Brigham Young University, to be first president of the New England Mormon Mission. He found that some 3,000 New Englanders were already Latter-day Saints. President Eyring set up headquarters in a house in Cambridge, hired the old, staid Cantabrigia Club (women) for Sunday meetings. With him he brought 20 young...
...Antietam Battlefield, north of Washington, the President spent 40 minutes watching a re-enactment of the bloodiest day of the Civil War. Saving most of his fire for his Constitution Day address in Washington the same evening (see col. 3), he got a cool response to a short speech which contained only one notable reference to the New Deal: "I believe also that the past four years mark the first occasion, certainly since the War Between the States and perhaps during the whole 150 years of our Government, that we are not only acting but also thinking in national terms...
...China-almost its entire standing army-and suffered untold thousands of casualties to prosecute that war. The war that was intended merely to nip off the Peiping section and possibly rich "model" Shansi Province, Shantung and Suiyuan, now covered China's entire 2,150 mi. coastline (see col...
...Passed the Court Bill and sent it to conference (see col...