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...half convinced by the statistical (or Kinsey report) explanation of corruption in Government: out of every thousand people there are bound to be X number of crooks. It's human nature. You can't do much about it. Anybody who gets indignant is a hypocritical old dinosaur...
...concludes: "Spare the leaf mold, spoil the hepatica. Remember, your dirt is the restaurant where your flowers dine." To his students' questions he replies with thoughtful absurdities: "Yes, I think tonsils are useful to some people"; "No, I don't think we know just how fast a dinosaur...
ALTHOUGH A MEMBER OF THE DINOSAUR WING OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, I OBJECT TO THE TACTICS OF SENATOR TAFT. THE STEAMROLLER HAS TO STOP. IT IS GOING TO STOP. THERE IS A DEAD END STREET IN CHICAGO...
With whistle-stop abandon, the President went on to track the dinosaur through his favorite tar pit, the Republican Both Congress. There, he said, the G.O.P. proved that it was "after the farmers," "after all wage earners," and "after organized labor." Today the Old Guard is trying "to preserve high profits for the steel companies ('I think they want a strike')," and "prevent wage increases for the steelworkers. That shows exactly where the Old Guard stands. It shows that their hearts lie with the corporations and not with the working people...
Trojan Horse Suggestions. Having slashed at the dinosaur, Harry Truman told the Democrats how to make big broad tracks of their own. "The first rule in my book," he said, "is that we have to stick by the liberal principles of the Democratic Party . . . The people don't want a phony Democrat . . . and I don't want any phony Democrats in this campaign. We are getting a lot of suggestions to the effect that we ought to water down our platform . . . These, my friends, are Trojan Horse suggestions...