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...State, I shall succeed to the Presidency, as provided by law." The President nodded assent and the U. S. became a Fascist State. Such was the nightmarish page of future U. S. history pictured last week in Manhattan by General Butler himself to the special House Committee investigating Un-American Activities...
...very long ago, you said yourself, Mr. Hopkins, that you recognized the fundamental principle that there is a limit to which the state can go in relief administration, and that at that point "private" charity must take up the burden. Any other solution, you claimed, would be completely un-American. Is it not slightly inconsistent to charge the very institutions that have of their own initiative assumed a share of the burden with snobbish evasion of their stint? --Yale Daily News...
...winter. The great Democratic majority had not only sworn to uphold the President but many of them had taken an additional pledge to vote for unemployment insurance. Yet last week many a Congressman who had taken this double pledge did not really understand what he had promised, thought of "un-employment insurance" as some sort of panacea that would lift the burden of depression unemployment from the U. S. The President showed by his speech that he knew better, knew that it would not solve the present relief problem, would be slow in getting started, that even after...
Some 20 years ago socialites of the Royal Automobile Club fought a successful nation-wide battle to eliminate speed traps as "unfair and un-British." Discreetly from sources close to R.A.C. last week came threats: "It may become necessary to organize trigger squads of from 30 to 40 cars of air gunners and shoot up all the beacons in London." From his Ministry of Transport publicity-courting Major Hore-Belisha retorted, "We are rushing the construction of new beacons and will have installed 20,000 by Christmas...
Simpson graduated from Lafayette College in 1912 and from Union Theological Seminary in 1915. A modern mystic, after the order of St. Francis of Assisi, he has renounced his connection with the Church, and rejected the modern world as totally un-Christian. He earns his living by farming and carpentering. His services, labor and speaking, he gives free of charge, asking only subsistence while seeking to live the ideal Christian life as he sees it. His manner of life will be the topic of his address...