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Just before Governor Earle withdrew martial law, a Johnstown "Citizens' Committee" & a "Steel Workers Committee" inserted in some 40 newspapers a full-page advertisement captioned WE PROTEST. Relating that the closing of the Bethlehem plant was costing the community $500,000 in weekly payrolls, the advertisement thundered: "It is no part of the functions of American Government to force-or to permit anyone else to force-the individual worker into surrendering his Constitutional rights. . . . If this can happen in Johnstown it can happen anywhere else...
...this was a lie, the Bolivian Cabinet angrily voted not to name a minister to Asuncion. This passage threw the Paraguayan Army into such a frenzy that they refused to obey Provisional President Franco's order to retreat from the disputed road, threatened a general revolt unless he withdrew the order. With Colonel Franco's fall expected hourly, the Army began to rally behind rabidly anti-Bolivian General Geronimo Zubizarreta for the presidency. Sanctimoniously the Bolivian Cabinet declared: "We decline any responsibility for possible perturbations created by Paraguay...
...successful British politicians know how to make a virtue of retreat. Next day a contrite Prime Minister rose to his feet, declared: "I do not think I have ever been inclined to show a pig-headed obstinacy." Neville Chamberlain withdrew his tax. He said that Treasury experts were working on a "simpler" corporate profits levy...
...someone would match it two for one, President Hutchins finally found a man willing to give him $550,000. He was Drugman Charles Rudolph Walgreen, who two years ago was so shocked by his niece Lucille Norton's breakfast-table talk about communism that he not only withdrew her from the University but provoked a sensational legislative investigation (TIME, April 22, 1935). Of the resulting Charles R. Walgreen Foundation for the Study of American Institutions its donor observed: "If our students study and are acquainted with our own Bill of Rights, there is no danger that they will...
...transferred to the Unitarian Department of the Ministry. Friends of Dr. Joy nominated him, made an issue of the report and what they called the "Humanism" of Dr. Eliot. So great was the outcry they aroused, so voluminous the letter-writing in Unitarian journals, that Dr. Joy withdrew his candidacy on the eve of the Association meeting in Boston last week, and the presidency went to Dr. Eliot as scheduled. Only acrimony at the meeting was when a resolution was introduced expressing Unitarian satisfaction with the gaining power of U. S. Labor. Ordinarily as liberal as any U. S. churchmen...