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...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 most extreme form . . . The framers of the Constitution were the most liberal thinkers of all the ages . . . Their concept held to the primacy of the individual's interest; that of our present leadership to the predominance of the state...
...petition said that enactment of any of the anti-subversive bills would "curtail academic freedom," It continued: "Its provisions regulating holding of meetings and assembled would force Universities such as ours to abandon the time-honored practice of having speakers of all political persuasions...
...following the Communist Party line. This week the I.U.M.M.S.W. pulled 58,000 workers off the job in more than 50 mines, mills and other plants in 25 states, and slowed U.S. production of defense-vital copper to a trickle. Defense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson said the strike would "drastically curtail" production of tanks, guns and planes. Present wages of the union's men range from $1.31 to $1.62 an hour. Union demand: a general wage increase of 20? an hour, plus pension and other benefits that would add another 10? an hour. Last offer of the Kennecott Copper Corp...
...traders argued that their island's value as the East's greatest trading center immunized it against aggression. Hanging out the "business as usual sign, they continued to do a flourishing trade with Red China. In recent months the U.S. embargo on China-bound exports threatened to curtail their prosperity...
...Miles-Nolan vivisection bill. They have now a marshaled stack of theological arguments, most of them stating that the merciful shall obtain mercy, and that what has been formed by God should not be deformed by man. In some places the anti-vivisectionists have become powerful enough to curtail medical research...