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Fair Formula. In phrases that echoed those of Andrew Jackson, who demanded reform of the presidential-election process in eight successive messages to Congress, Johnson urged elimination of "several major defects"-notably the electors' theoretical right to disregard the winning candidate's popular majority. They can either elect someone who is not even a candidate or, in a close election, fail to give any nominee a majority and so put the election up to the House of Representatives. The present system provides that if the choice goes to the House, each state delegation has a single vote. Johnson...
Back in Kimberley, the bishop said that he felt "ashamed to be associated by accident of race with those responsible for this disregard for humanity." He thereupon organized a relief drive to which whites and half-castes contributed. Government officials declared that the Bantus had "forfeited the right to sympathy" by their intransigence, denied that they needed any food, lifted Crowther's permit to enter the area. Afrikaans papers began hinting that the bishop had undertaken the food drive to "embarrass" the government. As the holder of a U.S. passport, Crowther is subject to expulsion any time the government...
...conservative tradition lies a profound respect for the dignity of the individual, that property rights are but a means to the end of dignity, and that the chief transgression of the omnipotent and boundlessly optimistic liberal Establishment is not its cavalier treatment of property but its unfeeling disregard for individual dignity...
...Wilson letters of recommendation contrive the same fraternal note which runs through the application form. Professor H. Ronald Rowse writes a note which begins "Dear Colleague" and emphasizes that one is free to disregard the recommendation form and simply write a letter...
Cabot said the Board will disregard the HUC's claim that disciplinary cases take on a special urgency because of larger draft calls. "The University should in no way go to an extreme to shelter people from the draft," he insisted...