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...committed the U.S. firmly to internationalism after World War II. In 1944 he became a Senator. Two years later, when the Republicans captured Congress, he proposed that Harry Truman resign in favor of a Republican. Ever since, the President has called the junior Senator from Arkansas "that overeducated Oxford blank-blank." A legislator with a moral sense, Fulbright was offended as he dug deeper & deeper into the activities of the RFC. One day last week he rose in the Senate to discuss his feelings about the current standards of U.S. morality...
That Oxford Blank-Blank. Truman's dislike for Rhodes Scholar Fulbright was a long-standing one, dating from Fulbright's suggestion after the Republican victory in 1946 that Harry Truman should appoint a Republican Secretary of State and resign in his favor, following the English parliamentary pattern. In his private conversation, Truman has since referred to Fulbright as "that overeducated, Oxford blank-blank...
...electronic eyes could pierce the blackest night, the soupiest fog or rain, spotting every ship, buoy, dock or shoreline. Dock masters could warn a scuttling ferry (in appropriate nautical language) that a long, lean liner was fixing to cut her in two. They could guide a blank-blank collier through the blank-blank sandbars...
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Sumner of Yale (folkways, etc.) and his dictum that what Ethan Allen probably said to Capt. Delaplace at Ticonderoga was "Surrender, you blank-blank blank-of-a-blank." Simmer's interest was debunking history, de flating legends of false heroics...
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