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Ortega y Gassest's "mass-man" is one such evil. Viereck's method for conquering that bogey is "not to retreat into un-American class lines in order to make some men aristocrats," but "to subordinate economics to cultural values, and to subordinate external coercion to internal self-discipline, in order to make all men aristocrats...
...typical Democratic bogey is the Taft-Hartley law. Democrats have pledged to repeal and rewrite the law, while Republicans would add the 22 liberalizing amendments proposed by Senator Taft three years ago. Since a new Democratic law as proposed by the CIO includes these amendments, the final legislative product will be almost the same no matter who wins...
...issue drastically symbolized by the steel strike. When Stevenson, as now head of the Democratic Party, could have prevented Truman from campaigning, he might have fulfilled his promise to give up a high level campaign. Instead we have Truman running against Jay Gould and other present-day bogey-men. I hope that, if elected, Stevenson will not feel indebted to the man whose administration will probably go down as one of four most corrupt. His record so far in resisting pressures, contrary to his words, does not speak well for him. W. A. Newcomb...
...next chance for college students to ward off the old bogey draft will come on December 4, Selective Service Director General Lewis B. Hershey announced recently...
...some time I have been wondering whether [Eisenhower] was going to find something to say that would not offend one of the Republican parties. Now at last I think he found it. In recent days he has come forth with a fine, free-swinging attack on that old bogey, corruption . . . There is no issue between him and myself on corruption. I am not only against it, I have actually done something about it. I was elected in Illinois to clean out one of the most corrupt regimes that ever inflicted itself on the state...