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...movie and calls on all Catholics to boycott the condemned item, the collective power of Catholicism is being used to threaten a publisher or producer or theater owner with economic ruin unless he withdraws from the market something a bishop dislikes ... In a smaller way, Catholic groups and organizations badger newspaper and magazine editors. Any mention of anything Catholic must be favorable or the heat...
...Dayton, Tenn. in 1925. As part of the team of big names and intellectuals who defended Schoolteacher Scopes and the theory of evolution, Dr. Potter and his wife lived at the "Monkey House," as defense headquarters was called. One of his jobs: advising Lawyer Clarence Darrow how to badger Fundamentalist William Jennings Bryan with Biblical quiddities, such as how the Garden of Eden's serpent got around before God condemned him to wriggling on his belly...
Theodore L. Badger, Instructor in Medicine, and Edward A. Gaensler, assistant in Maternal and Child Health, were given $10,000 to continue their work on the lungs and respiratory system...
...Little Toehold. Then the bored Connally perked up. The Republicans' Harold Stassen appeared, to damn the Wherry resolution and coolly out-badger fuming and contentious Senator Kenneth Wherry. And the next day Thomas E. Dewey, in his first appearance before a congressional committee, dealt his isolationist colleagues one of the most demolishing forensic blows they had yet received...
...place in society, was substituted for passive, hopeless "patient care." That was how Mrs. X met Dr. James M. Mott Jr. Young (29), redheaded Psychiatrist Mott found her amazingly spry for a woman of 72 who had been pent up for 17 years. She had enough energy to badger him unmercifully with her delusions. But soon it appeared that his regular visits gave her a sense of security. Dr. Mott was responsible for 367 patients (with 61 attendants, but no nurses, no case workers). He could spare Mrs. X only half an hour a week. This would be considered hopelessly...