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Private organizations have taken up some of the slack. From corporations have gone errant economists whose advice has won the respect of South American officials. The American Federation of Labor is helping Latin workers to organize. Most effective, perhaps, has been the Rockefeller Foundation. Converting the continent into a laboratory for disease cure and economic development projects, the Foundation has done much to counteract anti-American propaganda. But private programs have neither the authority nor the effect of an active State Department...
...conference itself, Aneurin Bevan, the errant mate in Labor's house, started the fur flying with a pyrotechnic display of wit, venom, vituperation and mock humility. "The U.S.," he told the conferees, is "hagridden by fears: fear of war and unemployment, and fear of peace." He accused Churchill and the U.S. of tying Britain's "economy to a perpetual war machine. This is rake's progress." However, the pink-cheeked Welshman twinkled cheerfully as he castigated his private enemies and Britain's friends alike, "I know I must be careful, lest I make a controversial speech...
Tobin banged the Lampoon's side door with both fists, and the startled face of the janitor appeared. The Young Democrat pushed his way in and managed to retrieve the errant Governor. With red faces, the Currey faction trooped along behind the Governor, while Curey himself unctuously told Dever he "was happy he could come." The Governor smiled slyly. Tobin glanced furtively around as he led the Governor to the car, evidently expecting another attack...
...object of a frantic search several years ago. An Overseer of the University, hearing of this professor's excellent delivery, wanted to pay him a visit. Neither the class nor the professor were in their appointed room, and the would-be visitor was rather put out. Upon contacting the errant professor's department, Kennedy found that he had notified it of his intention to change rooms. Another visit by the Overseer to the new location revealed nothing in the way of class or professor. It was not until several harsh inquiries were made that Kennedy found out that the wandering...
...there are any) of completely unregulated capitalism and those of state socialism. Social justice can be realized, he wrote, neither by "the free play of blind economic forces" nor by "an oppressive, omnipotent weighing down on the legitimate autonomy of private initiative." ¶ The Holy Office condemned "corrupt and errant forms of sacred art." Warned the Holy Office: "Of no moment are the objections raised by some that sacred art must be adapted to the necessities and conditions of the present times. For sacred art, which originated with Christian society, possesses its own ends, from which it can never diverge...