Reply #13: I was equally appalled that she included all professors in her remarks

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Purging the academicians is such a Nazi idea. Hell, they had the students throw their teachers off of balconies.

Yes, she sounds like the people Sinclair Lewis warned us against in his novel IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE. It's a fast read. And deadly scary.

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"Mrs. Adelaide Tarr Gimmitch--she who was no more renowned for her gallant anti-suffrage campaigning way back in 1919 than she was for having, during the Great War, kept the American soldiers entirely out of French cafés by the clever trick of sending them ten thousand sets of dominoes.

Nor could any social-minded patriot sneeze at her recent somewhat unappreciated effort to maintain the purity of the American Home by barring from the motion-picture industry all persons, actors or directors or cameramen, who had: (a) ever been divorced; (b) been born in any foreign country--except Great Britain, since Mrs. Gimmitch thought very highly of Queen Mary, or (c) declined to take an oath to revere the Flag, the Constitution, the Bible, and all other peculiarly American institutions." <snip>

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