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...code also chastizes "any attempts to beat the rules, or to gain an advantage or win a game by circumvention of or disregard of the rules," terming the coach or player "unfit to be associated with the game of football...
Vice President Barkley, the loyal party trumpeter, traveled to Philadelphia to tell 2,500 steelworkers that "it is as un-American for any group [i.e., Big Steel] to defy or deny or disregard the verdict of a governmental agency [i.e., the WSB] as it is to defy the verdict of a jury in a court of justice...
From Porter, Taft's analysis of the Texas situation later brought a hard-hitting statement: "In Senator Taft's letter to the national committee, in which he was permitted ... to appear as an advocate and judge ... he showed cynical disregard of morality ... In the 7th, 13th and 16th Congressional Districts, there were no contests. When the Eisenhower delegates from those districts walked out of the state convention and joined the Eisenhower convention, there were no delegates remaining to represent those districts. And yet Senator Taft claims in his letter that he won those districts...
Taft's backers have manifested all along the coolest disregard for honesty, consistency, democratic ideals, and simple fair play. Apparently they are so convinced that Taft should be the next president that they do not care how he gets there...
...voice trained in the essentials, trained in the minimum of personal expression." In a few harsh strokes, he renders the whole humiliating relationship between Nazi overlords and Ukrainian collaborators. But he is at his best in comparing Nazis and Stalinists. Both, as he paints them, are alike in their disregard for the human person, but the Germans kill wantonly while the Russians kill with cold intent; for the SS, it is the stroke of death that matters, for the NKVD. the authority by which the stroke is administered...