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...Club tie-clip, a photograph of the Benson family and a book entitled Plant Diseases. Benson entertained the Russians with a lunch of new foods developed by U.S. scientists (including powdered orange juice and dehydro-frozen peas) and delivered a warm little speech: "Permit me to commend you for the friendliness and good will you have displayed. I believe you have been good ambassadors...
...What a travesty of justice and a horrible commentary on American liberty to commend one ex-Communist sympathizer and spy for his "strong sense of duty" and to sentence the other to eight years at hard labor...
Joining President Pusey to commend the employees at today's ceremonies will be Edward Reynolds '15 administrative vice-president, and David T. W. McCorrd '21, executive secretary of the Harvard Fund Council. The Glee Club will also appear...
...There are many things that are denounced by the criminal code in order that society may know that the state disapproves . . . When we fly in the face of public opinion, evidenced by the code of every state in this Union, we are not proposing a code which will commend itself ... to the thoughtful members of the profession." Not so, thought venerable (83) Learned Hand, retired chief judge of the U.S. Second Circuit (New York) Court of Appeals. "Criminal law which is not enforced practically is much worse than if it was not on the books at all ... I think...
...unfortunate that there is no international Judiciary which can equitably decide the dispute on the basis of a sound body of international law and then have its decision enforced. I do not use the term "military dictatorship" derogatorily in reference to the government of Egypt, and I commend that government highly for the reforms which it has instituted in Egypt. Considering the Egyptian situation, it was and is the best possible government for the time, far superior to the corrupt constitutional monarchy which it supplanted. However, although I stand corrected in one respect--Egypt became a military dictatorship...