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...British Purchasing Commission's Sir Louis Beale told the delegates about British purchases and plans, a Manhattan importer named Carl Whitman jumped from his chair, shouted "Hey! When are you going to pay what you owe us?" Next to those, the convention's grimmest words were spoken by a vice president of Manhattan's Chase National (biggest U. S.) Bank. Tall, balding Joseph Charles Roven-sky foresaw putting a lot of liberty on the shelf right away. He believed the U. S. would abandon at least temporarily the Hull methods, resort to Hitler's own methods...
...trial of brute strength. ... To win the war Britain must adopt with greater thoroughness the same work of destruction as the Germans, which would be an undignified competition. . . . Let Hitler and Mussolini take possession of your beautiful island, your homes, and allow yourselves to be slaughtered, but refuse to owe allegiance to them. . . . Whatever happens my love for Britain will not diminish. This appeal is prompted by that love. ... In God's name...
...colleges owe $77,000,000 in debts...
...country in jalopies, often a couple to a car, the man in overalls, the woman in calico. They ring doorbells, ask whoever answers to listen to their phonograph records attacking all "organized religion" (the Roman Catholic church in particular) as a racket. They disregard the law because they owe allegiance to "none but God." In school their children refuse to salute the flag, believing that it is a graven image. Last week into clink from Maine to Texas as alleged spies, radicals, fifth columnists and non-patriots bounced Bible-dizzy but patently sincere Jehovah's Witnesses. At Litchfield...
...recent column which contained a discussion of the students whose works were to be shown in the now current Winthrop House exhibit, I said that some of the men had attained a "more than adequate degree of proficiency in the handling of their mediums." I owe those men an apology and plead guilty to self-inflicted charges of gross understatement. The oils, water-colors, and drawings which form the collection reveal more genuine talent than has been sent in any recent exhibit of contemporary...