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...Con. His critics feel that he is both immature and calculating-a man who has taken a stand on so many issues that he not only appears to be all things to all men but is confused in his own mind. (He began an article for PM last fall with the sentence: "Joseph V. Stalin has, I think, an open mind," now calls for outlawing the Communist Party in the U.S.) They feel that his habit of proposing a five-or ten-point panacea for every problem shows glibness and cockiness rather than sureness and knowledge. They point out that...
...Con. His critics maintain that he belongs to the 19th Century; that he is shortsighted in world affairs; that he is stubborn, cold, impatient of opposition; that he is tactless ("It is dishonest to be tactful," he says); that he lacks the kind of wisdom which comes from human understanding; that basically he distrusts the judgment of the people...
Public Record, As a prosecutor, he swept up shoals of bootleggers, con men, grifters, oil stock swindlers, bunco artists; jailed the county sheriff for gambling graft; jailed the Alameda mayor, city manager, and councilmen for bribery and theft of public funds; became the recognized legislative spokesman for the state's 58 district attorneys. None of his convictions was ever reversed after appeal to higher courts. His most famous case: the 1936 dockside murder of the nonunion chief engineer of the freighter Point Lobos, for which three union officials and one fingerman were convicted. The trial was conducted amid cries...
...Con. His critics say he is a confirmed fence-straddler who rides the donkey and the elephant at the same time, a phony liberal who proposes social reforms with one hand and fails to push them through with the other, a bullheaded, plodding mediocrity who never says or does anything out of the ordinary...
...Compulsory Student Activities Fee: Pro and Con" will be the topic of a special debate Radio Radcliffe plans to present tonight at 9:30 o'clock. Irene C. Tinker '49, formerly editor of Signature, has been slated to oppose the proposal. Luretta Davis '49, treasurer of Student Government, who was involved in drafting the scheme will argue in the affirmative...