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...Chicago, Moody and Soapy were in the truculent forefront of the disastrous, disingenuous attempt to bind the South with the loyalty oath (TIME, July 28). Behind them, egging them on, was Walter Reuther. Moody's performance for the cause was the most appalling of all, for in his arguments before the credentials committee he became so mixed up that his ally, New York's Franklin Roosevelt Jr., had to straighten him out-which is like being saved from drowning by a three-year...
...final curtain, the delegates might have marred the lesson by flubbing the vice-presidential nomination with a futile compromise to "bind up the wounds." They did not flub it. Richard Nixon, progressive fighter against Communism and corruption, fits the logic of the Monday vote, the Wednesday vote, the nominating ballot-and the struggle for victory...
Ties that bind all her sons heart to heart...
Then, completely on his own, Vinson lumbered into an extraordinary proposition. Said he: the United Nations Charter and the North Atlantic Treaty bind the U.S. to resist armed attack against any member nation. Hence, "our treaties represent not merely,legal obligations, but show congressional recognition that mutual security for the free world is the best security against the threat of aggression on a global scale." His implication: the President's seizure was justified because the international obligations of the U.S. require a maximum flow of steel for its own defense and for its allies...
...ribbon bow to bind my hair, If I had a fancy sash, my own true love would think me fair...