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...Eisler, perhaps the key figure of a number of his ilk who are boring from within, has no loyalty except to Communism. He wants to replace a free U.S. democracy with a sovietized state. This was a case of clearly discernible danger to the U.S., and the U.S. could applaud the Thomas Committee and the FBI for being on the alert...
...fear and abject submission." But Observer Ingersoll thus wound up his mission to Warsaw: "There was what we would call gross unfairness in the campaign [but] alleged outright fraud in the counting is not substantiated . . . the way to get them to hold Marquis of Queensbury elections here is to applaud them for what they are doing so courageously and well. . . . And if this be lecturing my countrymen, let them make the most...
Audiences who have heard Miss Anderson sing Crucifixion have sometimes been too awed to applaud. They have sensed that they are participants in an act of creation-the moment at which religion informs art, and makes it greater than itself...
...Bridgehead. Early in the battle, he had taken a position where all of organized labor could view him, where all of organized labor would have to applaud him, whether it liked him or not. His legal position was debatable; his moral position was worse. The court had merely ordered him to postpone-until the legal questions of his coal contract could be adjudicated-an action which would do the country great injury. This was the order he had defied. The order was the first step to an injunction, a word which labor mortally hated and feared. So on the bridgehead...
...seems you don't approve of the way things are run down here at Princeton, and you applaud and endorse your own standards over and above ours. The Princeton boys don't cheat, you say, because there is the "honor system." That's true, they don't, and because of the honor system, too. The only reason the "honor system" was dropped here during the war was because some prospective Harvard men were sent here in the V-12 units. I'm sorry to have to tell you this, but we do have morals and ethics here, and the "honor...