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...steel mills was a volley of polysyllabic denunciation: "usurpation . . . socialization . . . intemperate . . . dangerous implications . . ." New Hampshire's Republican Styles Bridges demanded a Judiciary Committee inquiry. South Carolina's Democrat Burnet Maybank called a halt to consideration of the controls program, due to expire June 30. Even the most ardent friends of labor warned that Harry Truman was wielding a two-edged sword-one that in the hands of another President might be turned against labor itself...
...ardent though insignificant member of the China Lobby, which includes among its charter members Dwight Eisenhower, who back in 1945 at Potsdam begged Truman to do all he could to keep Russia out of the Pacific War, the late Senator Vandenberg, and Senator Paul Douglas, may I point out a few facts that should be plain to experts and you and me alike...
Readers of the early season scrimmage of the Great Ideas may relish this anecdote. Intending to be facetious, I once asked an ardent indexer whether God had been included in the index. His prompt, patronizing and humorless reply stunned me: "Yes, but we've subdivided...
...Parliament last week, Jacobus Gideon Nel Strauss, 51, heir to the late great Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts as leader of the United Party, tried to attack government policy. Nationalist backbenchers shouted him down. Unable to make himself heard, Strauss appealed to the Speaker of the House, an ardent Malanite. The Speaker's only comment: "Resume your seat. I think you have said enough." Slumped on the front bench opposite, Prime Minister Malan chuckled in derision...
...Adams clashed most frequently with the French philosophers, e.g., Rousseau, Voltaire, D'Alembert, Condorcet and their disciples. Adams reveals himself as one of the greatest conservatives who ever helped to make a revolution. Sample dialogue between Adams and Mary Wollstonecraft, mother-in-law of Percy Bysshe Shelley, an ardent feminist, and author of an urgent work entitled Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution...