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...blast Stalinism out of A. L, P. ranks. Speaker after speaker denounced the Soviet. Then the A. L. P. men melted together all the high-Fahrenheit words they could find, forged a white-hot resolution that seared the "red and brown dictatorships" for "their shameless, hypocritical acts," their "brazen conduct," finally branded their U. S. apologists as "antiDemocratic, anti-humanitarian, antilabor, and the blind servants of the Russian international policy...
...crawled out of the precarious position it occupied during the nineteenth century, a position between the pit of conservative morality and the pendulum of progressive realism, certain fundamental questions are still unanswered. We find ourselves still confronted with the time-worn, but nevertheless basic, problems. Shall we accept brutal, brazen phases of the world as art on a par with the more pleasant and morally pure aspects of our existence? Is there any difference between the moral and the immoral, the good and the evil, in the realm of art? in short, is an ugly truth, well-expressed...
...support at $12,000 per year a privately built library .at Hyde Park for Franklin Roosevelt's books and State papers. Admission to the grounds: 25?. Fumed Republican Dewey Short of Missouri: "Not even immortal Shakespeare or Milton or Wordsworth would have the unmitigated gall and brazen effrontery to ask that a monument be erected to them to house their precious pearls of wisdom before their death. . . . Egocentric megalomaniac!" Minnesota's Republican Knutson suggested the papers be brought to Washington so that future statesmen might learn "how not to run a government...
...Brazen lowered boats. When her wireless operators tapped out messages on the protruding stern they thought they got back reassuring messages from within. The Admiralty released its first statement: "There is nothing to indicate that the men are other than safe...
Just as the Brazen arrived on the scene, a masked man had bobbed up from the depths-the first to escape from the foundered submarine. He wore a Davis lung, a contraption resembling the U. S. Momsen lung, consisting of a life belt, an oxygen container, a breathing tube, a nose clip. Half-drowned, he was Captain H. P. K. Oram, commander of the Fifth Submarine flotilla but not of the Thetis. Before he knew that help was at hand he had volunteered to take his chances getting out of the dangerously tilted escape chamber. He and six others, with...