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But the real point in issue is not the qualifications of the individual concerned. I reach the point merely to clarify a misconception you have fostered in the minds of your readers. Another misconception you advance relates to the degree of innuendo that could be imparted to a Note by...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail Box | 10/1/1953 | See Source »

¶ North Carolina's legislature passed a law aimed at the Ku Klux Klan (and also, in part, at the Communist Party), banning any secret society organized to circumvent state law. Henceforth outlawed, if used for intimidation by any fraternal, political or social order: secret meetings, wearing of masks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: Quiet Revolution | 5/18/1953 | See Source »

But to make the situation even more unwholesome, Eisenhower indicates he will keep Wilson on, stock or not, and the Attorney-General and his assistants are now busily seeking a way to circumvent the present law. If found, the loophole will make a good law worthless. Some have suggested Wilson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dusty Corners | 1/20/1953 | See Source »

It is "the hypocrisy of self-righteousness" for present-day Democrats to claim themselves as true liberals. "Every move they make to circumvent the spirit of the Constitution, every move they make to centralize political power, every move they make to curtail and suppress individual liberty is reaction in its...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Keynote | 7/14/1952 | See Source »

As long as sorghum hangs heavy, golden-rod gilds the fields and black bass sail fat and complacent on river bottoms, our constitutional and, let us hope, indigenous heritage of godliness should be able to circumvent Cicada McCarthys, Cicero citizens and their contemporaries.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 22, 1951 | 10/22/1951 | See Source »

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