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...that the Department is simply frightened, while the McCarthys are demagogues, is no argument on behalf of State, for the executive branch can wield more power more quickly than a United States Senator. So far during the last few months that power has been used to the nation's detriment, and election or no election, we hope that those who operate State will soon regain their courage...
Education: Shifted frequently (to the detriment of his report card) between schools in Massachusetts and Florida; at West Point was strong on sports (polo, hockey), weak on studies (especially calculus); graduated in 1923, 240th in a class of 261. In 1924, took advanced flight training at Kelly Field, later worked as instructor. Went to Air Corps tactical school in 1934; Command and General Staff school 1935; Army War College...
...hypocrisy persists, to the detriment of both the Boston trio and the Ivy five. The Boston teams remain submerged in the New England League, a large, loose association containing Tufts, Bowdoin, M.I.T., Colby, and other teams hopelessly beneath them in ability. B.U. and B.C. have won the top two places without the slightest difficulty for years, with Northeastern their only league competition of significance...
...essence of "McCarthyism" is not McCarthy's callous disregard for the truth. It is the thing he stumbled upon: a deep-seated public belief that Communists did infiltrate the U.S. Government, influencing its policies to the detriment of the U.S. national security. This belief is founded on many facts known to the public before Joe McCarthy opened his big mouth at Wheeling...
...Protestants for a United Christian Church, but it has also been discomforting to realize that so many Christians are in such desperate confusion. We Catholics all too often have been inclined to smirk at this serious problem, rather than to sympathize with it, and this has worked to the detriment of our own hope-that all men be united in the Mystical Body of Christ...