WAR & PEACE: A Million for Hitler

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Sixteen days after World War I began in 1914, Samuel Harden Church was called the first violator of Woodrow Wilson's neutrality proclamation (for denouncing Germany's "murder of civilization"). Previously he had worked his way up from messenger boy to vice president of Pennsylvania Railroad, had long been doing good with Steelmaster Andrew Carnegie's money. He has crusaded for monetary inflation, against Prohibition, for President Roosevelt.

Back in good standing at the Duquesne Club since he turned against the New Deal in 1936, he recently summed up his domestic views: "I am for the ordered way of economic law—the gold standard, the bumper crop, the helping hand to honest business, and a tariff that will restore work to our labor." Although he announced in 1938 that Hitler should be tried as a criminal, Dr. Church has no intention of doing any kidnapping himself. That, said he, is for those who are young in years and heart.