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The call to arms came from Edmund Orgill, Memphis' leading hardware wholesaler: "Come out tonight and help us! Are you ready for peace in this world? You are the people, the men behind desks ... in the factories . . . You are the housewives." The Press-Scimitar put Mr. Orgill's message on its front page. In a drizzly rain one night last week 300 earnest Memphians went to the Parkview Hotel to see what they could do about peace in the world.
They were civic leaders, veterans, labor leaders,...
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