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Though none of the speakers at the Albert Hall rally went beyond Malvern, all made it clear that the once-conservative Church of England intends to play a leading and radical part in social reconstruction after the war. Canterbury, for instance, urged national control of money and land ownership, virtual abandonment of the profit motive, and the abolition of British class distinctions...
...impressed Stahl most were Captain Bernard Kuczynski and the hard-driving fullback, Bert Stiff. "Kuz" has started every game at end since he won a regular berth in the first game of his Sophomore year. Weighing better then 190 pounds and six feet one inch tall, he is a virtual certainty for All-American honors, in addition to being both a pitcher and an outfielder on the baseball squad. "He should give us a few headaches," was Stahl's cryptic summation of "Kuzs" capabilities...
...sorriest commentaries on American government since that same state expelled five Socialists from the Legislature. The American Legion, inspired by a clause in its preamble promising a defense of Americanism, has applied for a writ banning the Communist Party from the ballot next fall. In several upstate counties a virtual reign of terror has been undertaken in an attempt to force signers of the nominating petitions to repudiate their signatures. All this, in the name of "Americanism...
...John Harvard has given way to Johnny Doughboy for the duration with the virtual transformation of the Harvard Graduate Schools into vital military centers for training officers and conducting research," the News reported. It further described the acute overcrowding caused by the influx of 3,000 Army and Navy officers taking training here...
...Nazi agitator who talked too much. They blackballed him when he applied for membership, wondered why Swedish authorities let him keep his job. But the neutral Swedes want no trouble, and so they quietly, methodically investigated what Svanberg talked about and to whom. Last week, three months after the virtual annihilation of an eleven-ship Norwegian-British convoy, they indicted Svanberg and two unidentified Swedes as ringleaders in one of World War II's biggest spy rings...