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...Presbyterian and one who in this election is supporting Mr. Hoover, I wish publicly to protest against the letter of the Moderator of the General Assembly calling on all members of the Presbyterian Church to support a particular candidate (TIME, Oct. 1). This is a flagrant instance of an ecclesiastic's attempt to drag the Church into politics. As a citizen Dr. Walker is within his rights in giving his public support to any candidate he pleases. As a Christian minister he is justified in urging the maintenance of prohibition as in his judgment the wisest method of safeguarding...
...half years is as well-known to the Republican candidate for President as to any other man in the United States. Nobody will deny that. Mr. Hoover sat in the Cabinet for seven and a half years, yet I search in vain for any word from him of protest, of condemnation or of repudiation of this black chapter in his party's history. On the contrary, in the face of that record, in his speech of acceptance he said...
...from the Seamen's Union (suspected of being red); refused to receive a delegation of unemployed coal miners who had walked many a mile from their mine to appeal for help; and shouted down John Joseph Jones M. P., famed as "Jumping Jack Jones," when he rose to protest that the seamen and miners ought to be granted at least a hearing...
Though this stiff pill was swallowed without protest, the National Assembly proceeded to deadlock and then to balk when instructed by King Amanullah to pass a bill raising the marriageable age of females to 18. Occidentals may not realize that the chief distraction of many an aging Oriental is his new wife, aged say 14, or in extreme cases as low as seven. The Afghan National Assembly, however, positively declined to ratify the measure...
...Richard, first Viscount Haldane of Cloan, Scottish statesman buried last fortnight (TIME, Aug. 20), had been opened during the night. A man was found asleep in a corner of the graveyard. Investigation identified him as the stranger who had momentarily halted Lord Haldane's funeral in London to protest. He explained that he was a spiritualist, said Lord Haldane was not dead, that he had a message for him. The man has been arrested...