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Next day, Stevenson said that he would not repudiate the record of the last two Democratic Presidents. "Of course I approve and applaud the vast accomplishments for the public good under Democratic leadership," said he. "President Truman or any President is a key figure in a national campaign...
...total expenditures for commodities from abroad. Some oilmen think that Brazil has perhaps a sixth of the world's undeveloped oil reserves. But when Vargas, on a recent visit to the Bahia oilfield, plunged his fingers into Brazilian oil, and held them up for his followers to applaud (see cut), Brazil's production was still a mere trickle of 85,000 barrels a day. Congress, taking its cue from the President, is doing its nationalist best to delay the day when Brazil will be self-sufficient in oil. For eight months it has bottled up a bill that...
...Bill requiring registration of Communists. Was largely responsible for resolute pursuit of Hiss investigation, repeatedly saved the case from being dropped by going out himself and digging up facts. Said Whittaker Chambers in Witness: "Richard Nixon made the Hiss Case possible." Nixon, however, is no McCarthyite (he did not applaud McCarthy's speech to the convention), is favoring legislation giving witnesses at investigations a better break. He has also been active in Senate investigations of Government corruption, and publicly called for the resignation of Republican National Chairman Guy Gabrielson when Gabrielson was accused of using his influence...
...applaud your masterful editorial in defense of "splendid isolation" and in criticism of the so-called All-College Weekend? You are fighting for a noble cause to whose banner I rallied long ago. In 1948, as a member of the Student Council. That once august body has since much declined in stature and vigilance. (The CRIMSON has gained in both; the Lampoon has just about held its own...) But in those days there were a few foresighted stalwarts who could recognize a storm when they saw, hovering over the Yard, a cloud no bigger than the palm of a hand...
Second, readers Viglielmo and Russell may applaud "the unseating of secularism," but there are many others--some of whom approve preaching materialist philosophies, and some who detect no signs of such preaching in public schools--who prefer to sit on their hands. The question, however one answers it, concerns a highly private matter, one's philosophy of life, and there are almost as many answers as there are citizens. Why, on such an issue, should the state decide for each individual that a spiritual vacuum actually does exist, that there is only one thing that can fill it, and that...