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...most recent example is the December 22 issue of the National Association of Manufacturers News, in an article called "growing Conservatism Finds Expression in Young Americans for Freedom." The account was excerpted from a recent publication of the civic Affairs Monthly, where Phillips' former title was also noted...
...deciding vote in Monday's election was cast by Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci. Vellucci, one of five independents on the Council, had originally nominated himself. The other four independents voted for Andrew T. Trodden, while Mayor Crane got the support of the four Cambridge Civic Association-backed Councilors. But after the ballotting had produced the 4-4 tie between Crane and Trodden, Vellucci switched his vote to Crane to end the contest...
...Rodriguez Echavarria-with an assist from Washington, which stationed warships and marines off the Dominican coast-became heroes for a day by blocking a comeback coup by two Trujillo brothers. But their authoritarian rule still did not meet the nation's hankering for freedom. The opposition National Civic Union, a moderate group, demanded that Balaguer and Rodriguez Echavarria themselves abandon power. At first the two Trujillo holdovers refused. It remained for two unlikely go-betweens to bring about a settlement-Luis Amiama Tió and Antonio Imbert Barreras. sole survivors of the Trujillo assassination plot. Invoking their present popularity...
...scholarship of the writers is much less arresting than their scorn, their scolding, their sense of civic virtue. Their language is filled with the old words of Christian righteousness ("spoliations," "disorderly house," "men of evil"), but in every case their targets were more formidable than their words. Ida Tarbell made Standard Oil "her province, referring to it here and there as "the Monster." Phillips, the wildest of them all, took out after the Senate, calling its leaders that "group of traitors in the service of the thieves...
There are still crusades in the press but the muckraker's tone of high-collar righteousness seems out of key in today's more complicated world, in which Americans have found that they have more to worry about, from Berlin to Laos, than civic corruption or spoiled meat. Laws and the nation's conscience have eliminated most of the outrages the muckrakers attacked. But the Weinbergs' book is a readable reminder of the days when a handful of serious scolds could make a whole nation feel as embarrassed as a small boy caught with dirt behind...