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...total picture which emerged from the welter of uncomplimentary testimony was that privately endowed, tax-exempt foundations use their educational and humanitarian activities as a cloak for a vast scheme to undermine American life...
...Cloak & Petticoat Business...
...UNDERSIGNED PROTESTS AGAINST THE WAY IN WHICH TIME'S CORRESPONDENT UNDER CLOAK OF INTERVIEW WITH ME PUBLISHED MISUNDERSTOOD REPORT OF DEBATE AT PRIVATE PARTY. NOTHING COULD BE SIMPLER THAN REFUTING THE STATEMENTS MADE. THESE, HOWEVER, ARE OF SUCH A NATURE AS TO FALL FROM THEIR VERY ABSURDITY...
...Turning point was Dec. 12, 1531, when an Indian peasant named Juan Diego reported a vision of the Virgin Mary and showed his cloak on which there was an image of a dark-skinned Madonna above a crescent moon. The Virgin of Guadalupe became the patroness of Mexico, and on the site of the Aztec temple to Mother-Goddess Tonantzin, Mexicans built the basilica that became their national shrine...
...plate Democratic dinner in Washington (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Harry Truman staked out his favorite whipping boy, "the one-party press." "There has been no parallel in our history," said Truman, "to the cloak of protection thrown about this Administration by so much of the press . . . Never in the peacetime history of this nation has there been such a vast volume of persistent publicity to praise and extol an Administration." This week, on the day after the speech, the New York Times's Washington Bureau Chief James B. Reston angrily set Harry Truman straight: "Mr. Truman should have a talk...