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...orders to his fighter pilots. "Get the hell off the air," the German screamed. This struck the U.P.'s Henry Gorrell, listening, as pretty funny. It was not so funny when a handful of German fighters got off the ground. It was Gorrell's plane, the Witch, last in the formation, upon which the Axis fighters swooped. Wrote Gorrell...
...airline operator, burly, whip-smart Philip Gustav Johnson was branded an airmail profiteer, publicly disgraced, finally booted out of U.S. aviation by the witch-hunting First New Deal (TIME, April 30, 1934). Last week the same "P.G." Johnson was a top-flight U.S. production hero and Seattle's No. 1 citizen. Reason: Under Secretary of War Patterson had just handed Johnson and his booming Boeing Aircraft Co. the Army-Navy Production Award-newest U.S. prize for war-production excellence. Said Patterson: "This is your nation's tribute to the patriotism and production effort of your plant...
...religious and political] music." It was rich in verse; most of it was "practical letters," along with the lively related arts of "oratory, pulpit eloquence and pamphleteering." It was rich in symbolism, which "tends to dominate folk expression." It was rich also in a sense of evil. The Salem witch burnings were "cumulative folk-obsessions." Jonathan Edwards "induced tortuous introspections." Charles Wesley and the "dark fire" of his fellow Methodist, George Whitefield, kept the nation incandescent with revivalism for a generation. Calvinism, a scientific bent and poverty, gave early U.S. art a flair for abstraction...
...smaller than usual; of ten bands invited to add to the din, only the one from Moultrie High School showed up. The Palace Guard hoped this was the fault of gasoline rationing; but they feared that maybe Georgia at last had tired of Talmadge's witch-doctory...
Many a Congregational church (see cuts) now contains stained glass, a rood beam, candles on the altar, other High Church trimmings that would have sent Cotton Mather on a witch hunt...