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After making every allowance for the stiffening influence of the police state, and for an Asiatic disregard of poverty, it is still hard to believe that the Soviet Union, whatever the equipment of her armies at the front, could remain on the offensive with equipment such as this in the rear...
...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...
According to your July 30 report, "Endless Frontiers," the Bureau of Reclamation plans to shuffle and redeal all the rivers of the West, with lordly disregard of natural obstacles, economics and state boundaries . . . There are many reasons why this Buck Rogers enterprise is unworthy of serious consideration...
...local boards which disregard the recommendations of Selective Service and of its advisory board are being arbitrary," General Renfrow declared. "Arbitrary action, here or elsewhere, should not be tolerated...
...Quakers, unworried, dug themselves in for the immediate, and expected, barrage of abuse. Hall lashed at Stassen's manifest disregard for the common interest and welfare of all the other colleges in the nation." In succession, Columbia, Cornell, California, and Yale balked at signing football contracts, and Dartmouth threatened to cancel the scheduled game of October 6. Commissioner Asa Bushnell of the E.C.A.C. (an N.C.A.A. subordinate) threatened to toss the Quakers but of Conference leagues in other sports...