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...Frank P. Moran, head of the New England division of the Christian Front, yesterday termed both Edward H. James, leader of the recently exposed Yankee-American Action, and the Rev. Donald G. Lothrop, who is minister of the Community Church of Boston, as "fronts for Communist movements...
...also challenged Mr. Lothrop to a debate, possibly to be held in a Harvard hall, on the question of Coughlinism and Communism. Moran's charges were based on the presence in the offices of the Byron Street League, a group sponsored by the minister, of the International League for Peace and Freedom. This organization, Moran alleges, sent representatives to a meeting held in Berlin in 1927 at which were also present official agents of Soviet Russia...
...Christian Front does not plan any action against the Y.A.A., and Moran dismissed James as a "nut with too much money." "The Front has far too many serious opponents to contend with." Moran declared. He revealed that six or seven months ago he learned of the group's activities, and that James was expelled from Germany for alleged Communist activities...
...Boston, James Moran hired twelve men, varying from cross-eyed to farsighted, issued them muskets with blank cartridges, marched them out to Bunker Hill, reconstructed the Revolutionary battle, to prove that Captain William Prescott could not have shouted: "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!" Result : the far-sighted men opened fire at 75 feet, the normal-visioned at 50, the near-sighted never fired at all, were presumably "skewered on enemy bayonets.'" Explained Moran: "I'm doing this because I like to have...
...loving Moran once set himself to find a needle in a haystack (time: 82 hours, 35 minutes); sold an icebox to an Eskimo; peddled advertising for display on barbershop ceilings...