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...responsible for this deal is the Adventists' plump, benign Carlyle B Haynes of Washington, B.C., who has made similar bargains with twelve other international unions during the past two years. Says he: "We believe that we ought not to be tied up in any organization which by a majority vote can bind us to a course of action contrary to our religious convictions...
...frustration a power maniac like Jinnah could suddenly leap out of the shadows and, screaming wildly, lead hundreds of thousands over the chasm's edge. . . . We have made our mistakes, but history will record that a great portion of the guilt lies on that "admirable" power now so "benign in her twilight...
...This benign state of affairs was just too good to last. The New York World-Telegram printed embarrassing stories. Then New York's Republican state government, which contributes a lion's share of the relief funds dispensed by the city Democratic regime, began investigating. Last week, at a public hearing, State Department of Social Welfare Supervisor Bernard Shapiro lifted the racket...
Dependable Fooling. No gagman, the colonel still depends almost entirely on addleheaded whimsy, served with a heavy hand, an air of benign bewilderment, and some tried-&-true Stoopnagliana...
Twice in his career, Su was deprived of all rank for "slandering" the Government (i.e., attacking politicians who ruled under the blind or benign eye of one emperor or another); once he was imprisoned, another time exiled to the island of Hainan off the South China coast. He was then an old man, and ill in health. He was set free in time to make his way home for the last time. Two weeks before he died at 64, he wrote his good friend the local abbot: "Life and death are mere accidents and not worth talking about...