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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Nazi race-&-soil theories, affirms: "Japan is a land of gods. . . . Christianity offers a heaven of illusion and forces men to believe in Jesus Christ in the interests of the Jewish policy of world conquest. Such a belief would destroy Japan's policy. . . . Christianity, a device of Jewish origin which is encroaching on the Japanese spirit, must be eliminated...
Editorial content, compiled by Publicity Chief Charles Michelson, included a foreword by ex-National Chairman James A. Farley, a biography of Henry Wallace, essays on phases of the New Deal, the President's acceptance speech. Asked about the origin of The Book, which has burgeoned under many titles for almost 100 years, Editor Michelson snorted: "It's automatic, like the Jackson Day Dinner...
Sumner started his professional life as an Episcopal clergyman. But nine years after his graduation from Yale he went back there as professor of political and social science, started compiling a great mass of anthropological data which comprises the bulk of Folkways. In it he covered the origin and evolution of marriage and family, religion, government, abortion, infanticide, social codes, crime & punishment, slavery, patriotism and chauvinism, labor, wealth and 1,001 other facets of human society. Many surviving mores (a term he himself brought into common scientific usage) were irrational, often harmful, and he said so savagely...
...American Federation of Teachers passed a resolution "utterly" condemning all dictatorships "whether of Nazi, Fascist or Communist origin...
...list of embargoed strategic materials issued four weeks ago. Scrap brokers could retort that there is no scrap shortage as yet. But if Defense orders put steel's autumn production rate as high as patriots hope, steel mills will have to buy in a sellers' market whose origin can be blamed in good part on Japan...